That same year, Rachel reminisced:
From a WMAZ article at the time:
Same leadership, same skills on the job, but one noticeable change Chief Rachel Mosby is transgender, taking the steps to go from a man to a woman during her time in one of the city’s top jobs. …
“In 2004, I became a district chief,” she recalled. She came to Byron three years later as a fire marshal. … “It started in 2016, I started medically transitioning,” Rachel said.
Rachel is transgender. Uncomfortable as a man, she began the journey to becoming a woman. “I mostly grew up in a small town, smaller than the one I live in now, and information wasn’t available and it wasn’t something you just went and asked grownups about. there just wasn’t information sources for this stuff,” she explained.
February 19, 2021
Experts recommend linking vaccine to common issues like health of economy to convince reluctant GOP members to get shots.
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Polls show that Republicans are less likely than Democrats to get COVID-19 vaccines. In one survey, the data firm Invisibly found that 71 percent of people who identify as strong Republicans said they probably won’t get vaccinated, as compared to 21 percent of strong Democrats who say they’ll skip the shots. Responses vary on why. The most common one is that people are worried about side effects and that either they don t want to, they re worried about what happens immediately, or it s too new. … So it s not that they’re a no, but they’re a no for now, said Don Vaughn, head of product at Invisibly.
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