Legislator discovers tras burlarse of nominee trans to the secretarial of Health

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – Een wetgever van Pensilvania ofreció una disculpa el sábado, luego de compartir en Facebook la imagen de un meme que se burlaba de la apariencia de quien fuera la secretari de Salud del estado, la doctora Rachel Levine, a transgender woman nominated by President Joe Biden to serve in his governing body.

State Representative Jeff Pyle, a Republican of the Armstrongs in Indiana in the west of Pennsylvania, said on Facebook that “he has no idea” that the publication “series … will be reciprocated”, for decades. of electronic coralos acalorados me aseguraron que sí ”.

“Debo una disculpa y la ofrezco con humildad”, dijo Pyle, pero sin discisparse specpecne con Levine ni con otras personas transgenero, unleque dijo indirectly que su disculpa era hacia “todos los afectados”.

Levine has no comments on this site. The Department of Health did not respond immediately to an e-mail that had prompted a response to Pyle’s initial publication.

The comments on the legislator’s Facebook page the pedigree has been rejected.

One day before his investigation, President Biden named Levine as his secretary of health. Confirmed in the cargo by the United States Senate, it will be converted into the first officially transgender federal function.

Pyle, who was elected first in 2004, quoted a conversation with the Democratic leader in the State Chamber as “who explained the error of my publication”. Hizo hincapié en que a elo se le ocurrió the meme, sino que simply the compartment, aunque dijo que no debería haberlo hecho.

“This situation has taught me not to worry about different people calling me. Be a bigger man ”, he wrote.

Pyle wrote that he would not sign up, but that Facebook would be “ready”. Aggregates that it is centered on a project at the Butler Community College school and in the economic revitalization of Pennsylvania in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.