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HARRISBURG During a federal confirmation hearing Thursday, former Health Secretary Rachel Levine was questioned about the ongoing data discrepancies in Penn
If confirmed, she would be the first transgender federal official approved by the Senate a move that isn’t merely symbolic. Despite facing unique and specific health risks and inequities, transgender people have been ignored both in medical research and practices, leaving critical knowledge gaps in mortality and morbidity as well as risk of mental illness, disease, diabetes and cancer. Even their population size, estimated to be nearly 1 million adults in the United States, is unknown, because that information is not officially collected. Agencies must have leadership and staff employees with the lived experiences necessary to ensure policies are effective and inclusive and it is time for that leadership to include a trans person, said Ruben Gonzales, Executive Director of LGBTQ Victory Institute, in a statement.
Pennsylvania no longer sits among the bottom-dwelling states in vaccinating people against COVID-19. But as in so many things, Pennsylvania is hanging around or just below the middle of states.
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