Rep. Jim Banks’ official Twitter account was suspended after he referred to Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine [the ‘first female four-star officer’ and former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health] as a “man.”

Beginning at 8 PM, April 1, 2020 all of Pennsylvania “ordered to stay at home” by Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine

“Staying at home doesn’t mean making a daily stop at the grocery store because you need to get out of the house. Staying at home means you must stay at home.” – The unelected Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine

“You know, we all are blessed to have freedoms in our country but with freedom comes responsibility, and right now that means following [my] orders…” Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine

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Twitter suspends Rep. Banks’ account for misgendering trans health official

Rep. Jim Banks’ official Twitter account was suspended after he referred to Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine — the first openly transgender four-star officer in the US’s eight uniformed services — as a “man.”

The Republican lawmaker from Indiana claimed he was “posting a statement of fact” when he tweeted about Levine, the same day she was ceremonially sworn in as an admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

“Calling someone that was born and lived as a man for 54 years the first ‘female’ four-star officer is an insult to every little girl who dreams of breaking glass ceilings one day,” Banks said in a follow-up tweet Tuesday.

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