Next US Surgeon General

The Westboro Baptists are looking more and more prescient.

If you hate Trump but you still want str8 white men in charge of things, then you're still part of the problem.

That's OK. But Biden will take away our dishwasher pressure!

She got a lot of criticism for the way she handled covid in PA in the early days. (Moving her mother out of a nursing home into a hotel but putting covid patients back into the homes.)

I doubt she will get it.

There won't be any homosexuals left after 2030 at this rate!

What's wrong with the one we've got? Can't he stay, despite the Hawaii expedition?

R2 Richard/"Rachel" Levine IS a straight white man. He is a classic paraphiliac autogynephile: (ex-)wife, kids, "discovered" that he was actually a woman in his 50s, fabricated the classic autogynephile sob story about how he "knew" he was a "girl" since he was a child (admitting that he gets off to the idea of being a woman would be too gross), is literally just a man in a dress, etc. The fact that he is a pediatrician is nasty as fuck.

But I thought old, white men knew what was best for everyone?

She is our health director in PA. Being constantly on the news for months before the election likely impacted Trumpsters. I’m sure she is fine. But it does make it seem like a critical position at this time is being used as a symbolic gesture.

[quote] But it does make it seem like a critical position at this time is being used as a symbolic gesture.

Yep. Which is why she is a shoe in.

R7 No doubt this guy was a cross dresser/fetishist since puberty and then furthered his fetish into becoming an autogynophile.

Biden is not going to pick a sexual fetishist for surgeon general. Our surgeon general needs to be focused on the pandemic and other health issues and not what color lacy panties should he wear to the next press conference.

Presidents seem to keep the old one for a while. Obama and Trump only appointed a new one after a year in office.

Biden is not trying to start a contretemps just to appease a small segment of the left. He’s smarter than that.

Is that G's wig from The Big Chill?

No fucking way.

"She got a lot of criticism for the way she handled covid in PA in the early days."

Only from Republicans

Tons of Pennsyltucky white trash assholes have been mocking her......must be lot of Republican hatemongers on the DL

People have accused gays of being "fetishists" - you'd think some people here would have more empathy.

R17 If by "fetishists" you mean "pedophiles", you would be correct. There's only one problem here: since the 80s, scientific research has shown time and again that there is no evidence that proves gay people are more likely to be pedophiles or molest children than their heterosexual counterparts. Blanchard's transsexual typology, however, is still being researched and multiple studies have supported it.

r18, I wasn't even talking about the pedophilia accusation, which we all know is bullshit. A lot of backwards people think homosexuality in and of itself is an abberration and a perversion. Just like backwards GOP losers who troll here attack trans people.

Our current surgeon general is a closet case asshole who initially dismissed Covid as less harmful than the flu. Pretty much anyone would be an improvement.

The majority of men who identify as trans, like this lovely fellow who wants to genocide gay children, are autogynephilic fetishists. They are aroused by women’s oppression. All of the sex stereotypes and bodily functions and social degradation that women have been fighting against since the dawn of civilization are what gives them boners. Part of the fetish is forcing women to non-consensually participate in their fantasy of being subjugated “like a woman”. These are the ones who commit most of the brutal attacks, rapes and murders of women that you hear about in the news.

Well you better start writing to Biden people and express your objections.

State clearly that you are a Democrat and gay. Do not sound hysterical. Just the facts and science. Demand to know what this person's views are on transing children, puberty blockers, etc.

Didn't this person fight to get a male to female transgendered person into a women's prison?

R19 There is no scientific evidence that shows gay people are more fetishistic or paraphiliac than their heterosexual counterparts. Meanwhile, like I've already mentioned, autogynephilia is still being studied (under increasingly hostile and censorious academic environments, see: the Lisa Littman and James Caspian scandals) and has been observed and confirmed in multiple studies. So ultimately you are just repeating a false equivalence.

r19 is a pathological liar! A Trans who lies? No way. All Trans are liars. Their ideological belief system is based upon LIES.

[quote]She got a lot of criticism for the way she handled covid in PA in the early days.

And rightly so.

[quote]I doubt she will get it.

I hope you’re right.

R23, the freepers who attack trans people are pathological liars. Trump and all his fans lie about everything. Their belief system is a lie.

R24 is a Pennsyltucky deplorable. They hate the mask orders and the shutdowns because they aren't smart enough to understand science

R22, for years scientists did studies "proving" gays were sick. Right-wing think tanks still use bogus data to "prove" gays are sick.

R21, most Dems support trans people. It's Trumpsters who are against gays AND trans people.

R21 sounds hysterical while telling people not to sound hysterical. No one is "transing" kids against their will.

Why can't we just keep our current, closeted-gay Surgeon General? He and his assistant seem pretty good to me...

Pennsyltucky white trash assholes HATE Dr. Levine. They hate gays, too.

[quote][R24] is a Pennsyltucky deplorable.

Not even close, R25 and my post history confirms this. Disagreeing with something as important as this does not make me a conservative, a republican or a deplorable, I hope you don’t make these kinds of uninformed snap judgements in other aspects of your life. .

R30 makes snap judgment about trans people while yelling at others about making snap judgment.

I'm from PA. Liberals defend Dr. Levine, and conservatives from Pennsyltucky attack her. You just don't want to admit you're on the same side as a bunch of deplorables who dropped out of school in 8th grade.

That man makes a mighty homely woman.

[quote] The fact that he is a pediatrician is nasty as fuck.

Worse. His speciality is adolescent eating disorders, for which 95% of the patients are tween and teen girls. Girls often begin eating disorders as a means of halting their sexual development, or to avoid or discourage unwanted sexual attention. Many ED patients are sex abuse victims.

Sorry, I find that being his speciality to be creepy.

r33 holy fuck, I did not realize that. That's awful!

r33, also, there is a direct link between children with ED who suddenly decide they are Trans. In fact, when the EDs are treated, properly, the desire to switch 'gender' disappears in most of these kids. However, with The Affirmation Only Model, therapists are not even allowed to suggest co-morbid disorders could be playing a part in the dysphoria and often they are completely unable, legally, to engage in any subject other than agreeing with these minor patients that if they don't like their bodies they must be trans. Many desisted girls and women have spoken about how their eating disorders were ignored and how transing made them worse.

R35, a lot of homophobes would claim that all gays are sexual abuse victims or suffered some sort of trauma and that if they went through therapy they'd magically turn straight.

You guys say that kids shouldn't be allowed to transition even if they want to, because kids don't know what's best for them. Homophobes think it should be legal for parents to put kids through "ex-gay" therapy even if the kid doesn't want to, because kids don't know what's best for them.

Has she met Jocelyn Elders? Tell her, Jocelyn...

Potential New Surgeon General, you in danguh girl...

[quote]She is our health director in PA. Being constantly on the news for months before the election likely impacted Trumpsters.

Yes, and Pennsylvania decisively went for Biden, so the "impacted Trumpsters" aren't as important as they think they are.

As a Pennsylvanian, I can tell you in her role as Director of Health she has focused almost exclusively on the Covid pandemic, and before that was focusing on the opioid crisis. "Trans issues" are not her Public Health area of interest.

Weird to find so many reactionaries on a gay board

There will probably be a change as our current SG is on trial in Hawaii along with his companion.

Our “experts” and “elites” get less and less credible with each passing day.

[quote] You guys say that kids shouldn't be allowed to transition even if they want to, because kids don't know what's best for them.

So if a child wants to start smoking, because they really, really want to— that’s fine? A child wants to quit school and work a 9-5 job— sure, go ahead? A kid wants to have sex— I see where this is going.

Conversion therapy is wrong. Attempting to convince a child they are the opposite sex is it’s own conversion therapy. Sad that you don’t see that.

Biden will throw a bone to the ultra libs like AOC and nominate a medicare for all type who will advocate blowing up the national debt by 11 trillion dollars.

Conversion Therapy v. Re-education Camp: An Open Letter to Grace Lavery

The Cotton Ceiling: A Post Modern Affront to Lesbianism

This really makes me regret my vote and wish Trump had been re-elected...

Said no one sane ever except for our TERF trolls who are right wing anyway.

R26 And those "studies" were baseless and politically motivated. Meanwhile, multiple rigorous studies have confirmed the existence of autogynephilia. Even research conducted by self-described autogynephiles like Anne Lawrence have observed it. Are you going to deny reality? Are you going to deny the sheer, observable fact that there is a segment of the male population that is aroused by the idea of being a woman?

Your whole point is basically "science was wrong in the past, which means it is wrong again about x". That is the exact same "argument" that Scientologists use to discredit psychiatry.

Here's an explanation of what autogynephilia is from a man who has is:

Here's another AGP discussing it:

R36 FACT: Science has shown time and again that 80-90% of the children who experience childhood gender dysphoria (if not put on a transgender path by sycophantic families and doctors) will outgrow their dysphoria and become gay and lesbian adults. [Sources: Jameson L et al (2013). "Endocrinology Adult and Pediatric: Reproductive Endocrinology". Marcdante K et al (2014). "Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics E-Book". Dulcan MK (2015). "Dulcan's Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Second Edition"]

Advocating for the transing of children is equivalent to advocating for the eradication of gay people.

"So many potentially gay children were being sent down the pathway to change gender, two of the clinicians said there was a dark joke among staff that “there would be no gay people left”."

"“It feels like conversion therapy for gay children,” one male clinician said. “I frequently had cases where people started identifying as trans after months of horrendous bullying for being gay,” he told The Times."

"Several clinicians suspected that some of the “transgender” adolescents were reacting to homophobia at home."

"“For some families, it was easier to say, this is a medical problem, ‘here’s my child, please fix them!’ than dealing with a young, gay kid,” the third female clinician said. At the service’s “family days”, a parent was allegedly heard saying that they did not want their child to have gay friends because they “didn’t want them mixed up in that hedonistic lifestyle”. “It is converting people into heterosexuals,” one of the clinicians said."

Important documentary.

This is not “her”. This is “him”!, r16.

This human (on the left) does NOT look very healthy.

[quote]You guys say that kids shouldn't be allowed to transition even if they want to, because kids don't know what's best for them. Homophobes think it should be legal for parents to put kids through "ex-gay" therapy even if the kid doesn't want to, because kids don't know what's best for them.

Transitioning kids is gay conversion therapy, r36. Transitioning is the conversion of bodies into something they're not.

I have nothing against the trans community, well other than the people who make themselves look like lunatics, but IMO this would be a big mistake for Biden to make. Too many people we need to get over to Biden's side would be aghast at this and they'd be lost causes forever.

If that would be the only bone to the far left fringe of the party he would ever need to give, then fine. They would get nothing more as far as defund the cops and other expensive socialistic programs, so that could work.

Surgeon general had become a do-nothing, useless role. Who cares anymore who fills it?

She’s lovely

Are there any young ‘lesbian’ MTFs? They all seem to be be middle-aged men. Does autogynephilia become stronger with age?

You are depriving gay children of a chance to grow up to be physically healthy gay adults. This is a war crime.

r60, yes, most of the ones on twitter and reddit etc lobbing rape and death threats at actual women are young MRA incels who through sissy hypno porn decided the only way for them to get laid was by trying to force sex from lesbians. I have never seen a middle aged black or hispanic AGP. I'm sure they exist in some small number. But all the ones I've seen either in crime reports for raping or murdering women or for pedophilia etc have all been straight white guys, from their teens through antiquity.

I can't find any videos of this Richard Levine person.

Remember when Bill Clinton fired Jocelyn Elders for openly talking about masturbation?