Dr. Rachel Levine is the highest ranking, out transgender person ever to serve in the federal government. Her tenure at HHS ran concurrent with an explosion in state legislation targeting ...

Dr. Rachel Levine is the highest ranking, out transgender person ever to serve in the federal government. Her tenure at HHS ran concurrent with an explosion in state legislation targeting ...

But some have argued that HHS — and particularly the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, which is under Levine’s purview — has not done enough to protect public health in the face of ...

Dr. Rachel Levine focused on her job at HHS. Still, anti-trans politics followed her. In 2021, the country had one state with a ban on gender-affirming care for youth on the books — Arkansas.

Dr. Rachel Levine is the highest ranking, out transgender person ever to serve in the federal government. Her tenure at HHS ran concurrent with an explosion in state legislation targeting ...