by Robert Spencer, PJ Media:
One of the more absurd aspects of our age, which is absolutely filled to the brim with absurdities, is not only the left’s insistence that any man who claims to be woman, and any woman who claims to be a man, must be treated and referred to as such. Even worse is the fact that even allegedly conservative “news” outlets, including some that duly reported on how the transgender madness was a sick fantasy and worse, went right along with alacrity, referring to burly dudes as “she” the moment they stepped out in a skirt. Now, however, President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services has struck a blow for reality and sanity, amid howls from the fantasy-addicted community.
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Fox News reported Monday that HHS “has altered the official portrait of a transgender former Biden administration official to display the individual’s birth name, rather than adopted name.” The official portrait in question is of Rachel Levine, who was assistant secretary of health during the dark days of the Biden regime, and was hailed as the first female four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) despite not actually being a female.
Rachel Levine was originally named Richard Levine. He changed his name in order to reflect his new alleged identity as a woman, or his new identity as an alleged woman. In reality, Levine was a man all along. He was and is a man who has for some time now been playing out in public his fantasy of being a woman, and demanding that everyone play along on pain of charges of “transphobia” and the threat of professional and personal ruin.
Now HHS is no longer playing along. “Up until the government shutdown this year,” Fox reported, “Levine’s portrait plaque in the HHS offices featured the name ‘Rachel Levine,’ but it now displays the official’s birth name, ‘Richard Levine.’” (Throughout its report on this change, Fox carefully avoided using any pronoun at all for Levine. In a story from Jan. 2021, however, Fox dutifully referred to Levine as “she,” as if he had been an actual woman.)
The left was, of course, furious. The gay publication PinkNews headlined its story on this “Trump administration deadnames trans admiral Rachel Levine on official government portrait.” It quoted Adrian Shanker, “former deputy assistant secretary for health policy and who worked with Levine,” asserting that “to officially deadname Levine is an act ‘of bigotry against her.’”
