Republican Congressman Jim Banks tweeted on October 19 that Dr. Rachel Levine had become the first openly transgender four-star officer in the U.S. military.Banks wrote: "The first four-star female officer title has been hijacked by a man.”The U.S. Supreme Court, by a 6-3 majority, rules that gay and transgender people are equally protected from discrimination under federal civil rights law.For the first time, the inclusion of the rights of homosexuals and the transsexual in the constitutional interpretation of the law is significant, perhaps even more so than the legalization of same-sex m... |