BY BILL JUNEAU
After the 64-year-old Rachel Levine was named one of its "Women of the Year" by USA Today, the satirical Babylon Bee, whose mission is to poke holes in liberal talk, announced in a screenshot tweet that it was naming Rachel Levine as its "Man of the Year."
USA Today said that Dr. Levine is a woman who made a significant impact during the pandemic, helping the nation through the greatest public health crisis it has faced in more than 100 years.
Levine, a pediatrician who now serves as the assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, had "transitioned" from Richard Levine to Rachel Levine in 2011, and stepped away from life as a husband of many years and a father to two daughters. Reportedly, reassignment surgery, drugs and the reconfiguration of the hips and enhancement of the breasts came in fashioning the new Dr. Levine as a lady.
Dr, Levine, who has significant credentials and accomplishments as a physician and a scientist, now wears her greyish-blonde hair straggling down in page boy style. Her appointment a year ago by President Biden to the second biggest job in the health department won senate confirmation by a thin vote of 52-48, and there were accusations that the transitioned doctor favored the ability of children to change sexes without parental consent.
With the Bee's satirical attack on Levine whose feminine looks are raising eyebrows, Twitter suspended the conservative organization for "misgendering" Dr. Levine, asserting that it was in violation of the platform's hateful- conduct policy.
It accused the Bee of engaging in hateful speech, and barred the Bee from future tweets permanently unless it apologizes and deletes its abusive posting. "Canceled," said Parag Agrawal, 37, who was appointed Twitter CEO last November.
The following day, Tucker Carlson reported the story of Twitter's decision to terminate all tweets and the rhetoric of Babylon Bee, and spoke with the Bee's CEO, Seth Dillon on Tucker's nightly televised show.
Twitter has no standards, said Dillon. Babylon Bee is a company whose mission is to poke holes in popular narratives--"It is what we do."
The report on Levine was factual, he said, in that Dr. Levine was born a man with the equipment that belongs to a man and he will always be a man. The naming him as the Bee's "Man of the Year" was done in fun. There was nothing hateful or untrue in the speech, and the new Twitter CEO lacks the right to determine what a citizen can say in a democracy, explained Dillon.
'We will not back down and we will not be deleting any tweet which the far left Agrawal disagrees with," said Dillon. Agrawal was appointed CEO last November, succeeding Jack Dorsey. Agrawal immigrated from India to the USA some 16 years ago.
The following day after Carlson presented the Bee's chief executive as a guest on his nightly news show, Twitter's Agrawal struck again and said that he was suspending Tucker Carlson's ability to tweet, for speaking and promoting hate speech. Carlson deplored the actions by Agrawal noting that Levine had been a man for 54 years and then decided to change sexes, asserting, "call me a woman from now on, and that's that."
Can an individual just decide to change sexes and become a woman, and direct that he be called by a female name? We think not, and do not intend to apologize to twitter for anything, said Carlson. .
Last October despite some mixed reviews over Levine's performance in leading the department's fight against the pandemic, she was saluted and named the nation's first and only female, four-star admiral commanding the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She appeared on camera in a spiffy uniform, and said that she was a very grateful woman for the honor bestowed upon her.
Although the Biden team of progressive Democrats and the LGBTQ community applauded the recognition of Admiral Levine, others viewed the distinction with scepticism, noting that the oldish, and unusual looking Levine, does not appear to fit the distaff roll he has chosen.
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