Dr Rachel Levine President Joe Biden has picked Dr Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, which could make her the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the US Senate. Levine, a paediatrician, currently serves as the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health and is also a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine.
She has two children. Levine is one of only a handful of openly transgender government officials in the United States. A day ahead of his inauguration, Biden announced that he will nominate Levine to be assistant secretary for health, which must be confirmed by the Senate. “Dr Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we