Rachel Levine: Pride month? How about Summer of Pride?

Rachel Levine is the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Levine is the highest-ranking openly transgender official in the U.S. government.

While talking to a transgender activist, Ryan Cassata, Levine got all carried away and said, “Happy Pride! Happy Pride Month, and actually — let’s declare it a summer of Pride. Happy Summer of Pride.” One month isn’t enough time set aside to declare the LGBTQ community special and requiring recognition as such. No. What is really needed is a whole Summer of Pride. HHS will be celebrating Pride all summer.

By the end of June, most people are “Prided” out. Pride this, Pride that. The LGBTQ community is still a minority in this country yet to see all the stories and month-long celebrations of the sexual preference of some Americans, you would think everyone is gay, or bi-sexual, or whatever. We live in times where tensions run hot because the transgender community is aggressively demanding normalization and they are intruding in the lives of young children. That’s not acceptable so parents and adults everywhere are pushing back and speaking out about the damage caused by delivering cultural propaganda to the youngest among us. Drag shows used to be campy entertainment for adults. Now its become a story book hour with adults who are trans and not bashful about exposing themselves in front of very young children.

We are past the point of asking where are the parents and why are they allowing this to happen? Some of them think it’s ok to take young children to drag shows. Most people, though, know it is not acceptable to expose young children to these live performances, especially the performers who drag (no pun intended) children into the show.

Levine posted videos recently of unstructured interviews between himself and transgender activists. Cassata confirmed the information Levine was bringing to the discussion. Cassata spoke about the challenges transgenders face in some states and why they believe it is so difficult to identiy as transgender.

During a discussion about sex-reassignment surgeries and hormone therapies for “youth and adults,” Levine compared procedures that medically change the genders of minors to “suicide prevention care.”

“We often say that gender-affirming care is health care, gender-affirming care is mental healthcare, and gender-affirming care is literally suicide prevention care,” Levine said.

Hmm. To see the media coverage of all things trans, a person would rightly think that a large part of the population is trans. Pride month is the entire month of June. Lots of parades and events acknowledge the month as such. Take, for instance, Sunday’s Pride parade in Houston on Sunday. Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman was in attendance. He was wearing a short plaid skirt with a caption that read “Love will Always win. Happy Pride.” He posted his message on social media and received backlash.

Dennis Rodman on IG: pic.twitter.com/OKwk0RhK6Y

— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) June 25, 2023

Levine’s story is different than Rodman’s.

Levine transitioned from male to female in 2011, was previously married to Martha Peaslee-Levine and the pair share a son and daughter, according to the National Women’s History Museum. The couple divorced in 2013.

Levine has openly advocated for “gender-affirming care” and previously pledged the “highest support” of the Biden administration to ensure minors have access to hormone treatments and sex change surgeries in states across the country.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Monday that it is important that LGBTQ rights are protected and expanded. It was a slap at red states limiting taxpayer-paid services like body-altering surgery for minors.

Dennis Rodman is not gay or trans. He’s a live and let live kind of man who is a bit of a character. Those criticizing him on social media for wearing a plaid skirt clearly do not know Dennis Rodman. My goodness. Back before it was a popular thing to do, he was showing up in women’s clothes and having fun. Remember when he wore a wedding dress?

“Do your research guys,” Rodman wrote on his Instagram story. “#beenhim.”

Rodman is right in that he has long supported the LGBTQ community. Back in 1995, he posed for the cover of Sports Illustrated in drag. And he revealed that he received plenty of praise from the LGBTQ community for that move.

“They didn’t know the fact that when [they] shot that cover for the Sports Illustrated that that was the best-selling Sports Illustrated ever,” Rodman told Business Insider in 2019. “And then the gay community started to reach out to me and said, ‘Wow, we never knew that our community can be represented like that in sports.’ And people didn’t know at the time that I was doing that.”

He also speculated that 10-20% of players in the NBA could be gay.

Trans is different than the rest of the LGBQ community. Most of the other alphabet brigade don’t want to be special. They just want to lives their lives as everyone else does. Trans people don’t want equal treatment, they want special treatment. No one wants to see trans activists who feel entitled to bare their fake boobs while attending an event at the White House.

During Levine’s discussion with Cassata, Levine praised Biden for his support and for speaking “so eloquently” during the White House’s Pride event. There was nothing eloquent about the behavior of some transgender guests at the White House. They just want attention. Do we really need a whole summer dedicated to that?