Homophobic and Hero in Russia Carlson (fox)Attacks Trans Admiral
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| 4 star Admiral Rachel Levine, Retired |
Let's exchange Carlson for an American in the Soviet Union (Edward Snowden), I mean Russia, who is dying to come home but politicians won't let him. Shame on these politicians from Obama, Trump?
(the only friend Putin ever had) to Biden. But I still have my hopes in Biden. I just wish he was more informed.
So let's give to Putin (ah) Carlson, he can work there for RT and we get Snowden that can help us in our fight against internet sabotage and disrupting our systems back home in an exchange.. Snowden said he would do it for free. He is proven to be a loyal American by not giving Putin any information or working for the KGB. Putin gave him sanctuary to play an opposing team with the US and hoped he would get something out of it. Well, he got publicity but he wanted more. Let's send Carlson, he would love it
( just put a $20 in his coat that should give him enough rubbles for a year to stay in the same hotel room Trump had the Prostitutes pee on the bed and more). This would have to be done with his consent but he would go for RT like a mouse for the feathery newborn chick.
“Levine is a fake admiral and, we’re told, a woman," the Fox News host said, denigrating the nation's first openly transgender admiral.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson lobbed transphobic attacks against four-star Adm. Rachel Levine on his show Tuesday night, questioning why the nation’s highest-ranking transgender official was honored as a “woman of the year” and calling her a “fake admiral.”
Carlson’s segment came after USA Today dubbed Levine one of its Women of the Year for her role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Other honorees included Melinda French Gates and Simone Biles. Levine, a physician, is the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services and leads a group of 6,000 uniformed public health officers. She was sworn in as a four-star admiral of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in October, only the sixth person to be named as such in the corps’ history.
Levine is also the first female four-star admiral and first openly transgender four-star admiral, achievements hailed by civil rights groups and in the USA Today honor.
Carlson and his guest Candace Owens disagreed.
“A biological man called Rachel Levine is at the very top of the list,” the host declared Tuesday, going on to say: “Levine is a fake admiral and, we’re told, a woman.”
“If Rachel Levine can declare ‘I’m a woman,’ then why can’t I declare that I’m Samoan and demand that you respect me?” he continued. “Why can’t I be whatever I want to be?”
The false comparison feeds into transphobic tropes and perpetuates myths about transgender people. Intentional misgendering can also cause harm and create unsafe environments for transgender people.
Fox News did not immediately reply to HuffPost’s request for comment on Carlson’s comments.
Carlson has lambasted Levine before, saying the Biden administration had “gone crazy” for recognizing her long career in public service.
“It is ridiculous. Sorry, not playing along,” the Fox News host said in October. “But they don’t think it is. And so you have to ask yourself, how long will it be before Joe Biden appoints his horse to the Supreme Court?”
Levine told USA Today this week that her philosophy throughout her career was simply having “compassion for others and to help others to serve,” adding she feels everything she’s done before the pandemic “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.”
“You have to be true to yourself and I think that you have to be who you are,” she told the newspaper when asked about her own journey of self-acceptance. “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.”
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