Biden’s Trans Health Official Prioritizes The Pink Police State Above American Lives
Joe Biden is showing even he doesn't take his pledges to end America’s COVID crisis seriously. Expertise, not political tokenism, is the way forward.
By Kyle Sammin
January 21, 2021
Many of Joe Biden’s cabinet and sub-cabinet nominations have been puzzling. BuzzFeed’s Matthew Zeitlin compared it to a British prime minister’s method having “a list of guys who need jobs and a list of jobs who need guys, how they match up is kinda secondary.â€
Every administration has some mismatches, usually born out of the need to include someone from a crucial geographic, factional, or demographic constituency. That sort of political appointment is as old as politics itself.
Biden’s selection of Pennsylvania’s Rachel Levine for the job of assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Service is a particularly egregious example of choosing political concerns over practical competence. This is even worse than usual given that, amid a worldwide pandemic, public health jobs matter more than ever.
In throwing a political bone to his transgender supporters by nominating one of their own, Biden will elevate one of the least effective state health officials to a federal job, rewarding Levine’s dangerous incompetence and shocking hypocrisy with a promotion.
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