Dr. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health at the US Department of Health and Human Services, made history Tuesday as the first openly transgender four-star officer across the nation's ...

President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as assistant health secretary, and she would make history as the first out, transgender federal official to be confirmed by the ...

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Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine opened up about questioning gender identity at a young age, saying transgenderism was part of her "earliest" memories from ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A confirmation hearing was held Thursday for Dr. Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden's pick to serve as assistant health secretary, who would make history as the first out ...

President Donald Trump has nominated an Alabama urologist with a long record of anti-trans rhetoric — but also a history of marketing gender-affirming care to transgender men — to replace Rachel ...

Dr. Rachel Levine is the new assistant secretary of health in the Biden administration. She takes on this job at an historic time - more than one year into a pandemic. And she's also making history as ...

Assistant Secretary of Health Admiral Rachel Levine. Film still by Emily Geraghty for LGBTQ Nation “I think some of my most positive moments are when I am in meetings, roundtables, and discussions ...

The accusations against Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, are lamentable but, in a strange way, oddly refreshing. They represent a return to normalcy in Washington after four ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attacked Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine for posting a Black History Month message to social media. In Levine’s video, she talks about how ...

A video that claimed to show Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine performing a pagan ritual is fake, fact-checkers have confirmed. The doctored footage has been circulating ...