{"id":10353,"date":"2021-01-19T15:38:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T15:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118394\/us-poised-get-first-openly-transgender-federal"},"modified":"2021-01-19T15:38:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T15:38:33","slug":"us-poised-to-get-first-openly-transgender-federal-official-after-joe-biden-taps-rachel-levine-as-assistant-health-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/us-poised-to-get-first-openly-transgender-federal-official-after-joe-biden-taps-rachel-levine-as-assistant-health-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"US poised to get first openly transgender federal official after Joe Biden taps Rachel Levine as assistant health secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the US Senate.A paediatrician and former Pennsylvania physician general, Levine was appointed to her current post by Democratic Governor Tom Wolf in 2017, making her one of the few transgender people serving in elected or appointed positions nationwide.She won past confirmation by\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118394\/us-poised-get-first-openly-transgender-federal\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the US Senate.A paediatrician and fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10502,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions\/10502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}