Swimmer Lia Thomas becomes first transgender athlete to win an NCAA D-I title

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71. Yup, GOP tactic. Not fairness, or qualification, or respect. Like Ken Paxton attacking Dr. Levine.

Texas Attorney General Attacks Nation’s Highest-Ranking Openly Transgender Official

Continuing his transphobia, Ken Paxton intentionally misgendered HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine for being honored as "woman of the year.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, waist-deep in ethical controversies, tweeted out his transphobia on Thursday morning by intentionally misgendering the nation’s highest-ranking openly transgender official.

USA Today had named Dr. Rachel Levine one of its Women of the Year on Sunday for her role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Levine, nominated by President Joe Biden, serves as assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services and leads a group of 6,000 uniformed public health officers. The trained pediatrician was sworn in as a four-star admiral of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in October, becoming just the sixth person to receive the honor in the corps’ history.

Levine is also the first female and openly transgender four-star admiral — a milestone celebrated by civil rights groups, LGBTQ activists and USA Today.

“I think you have to be true to yourself and I think that you have to be who you are,” Levine told the outlet. “You have tremendous worth just for who you are, no matter who you love, no matter who you are, no matter what your gender identity, sexual orientation or anything else, and to be, be true to that. And then everything else will follow.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-ag-ken-paxton-misgender-rachel-levine_n_6233a8bfe4b046c938d9307a

Getting us to “other” trans people is the GOP goal - first one wedge, then another, and another, and soon a diverse Democratic coalition is gone. And trans people are different than cis people in uncomfortable ways, which makes it easier to cast their humanity aside.