USA Today is getting a mixed reaction to their pick as one of the 2022 "Women of the Year."
In an interview with Rachel Levine, U.S. assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Suzette Hackney reports the Admiral – the first ever biological male that identifies as a woman in her official capacity – said:
"I really feel that everything I've ever done, whether it was in academic medicine, in education, in clinical research, seeing my patients in my role in public health, in Pennsylvania and now my role nationally," Levine said, "has all led to this moment in terms of helping the nation through this greatest public health crisis that we have faced in over a hundred years."
Levine, 64, a trained pediatrician, became the nation's highest-ranking openly transgender official last March when the Senate confirmed her as assistant secretary of health. Levine has spent her professional life in medicine – as an academic, a clinical researcher, a primary care physician and as Pennsylvania's physical general and secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health – but she admits her current role has proven to be the most challenging.
The rest of the interview is HERE.
