LEE ANN ANDERSON , The Hill; HHS changes transgender former official Rachel Levine’s name on portrait
"The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) changed the name of former Adm. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman who served as the agency’s assistant secretary under former President Biden, to her birth name, or “dead name,” on her official portrait.
HHS confirmed on X Tuesday that the department changed the name during the government shutdown, saying that they wanted to depict “biological reality.”...
Rep. Rebecca Balint (D-Vt.) was among the critics who blasted the move online...
“Consummate professional, was always thinking about the American people, that was her charge and that’s what she did, so every time they do something like this, they reveal their own pettiness, smallness, vindictiveness, but also how incredibly insecure they are about their own identity.”
Levine, who was the first Senate-confirmed transgender official, told NPR that she wouldn’t “comment on this type of petty action.”
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