Twitter suspends Republican congressman Jim Banks for ‘hateful’ misgendering of high-ranking trans official

Levine didn’t reply to Banks’s feedback on Twitter. She has, as The Put up reported last week, been repeatedly focused by conservative teams and politicians as the primary overtly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate. The assistant secretary for well being was sworn in Tuesday as an admiral within the U.S. Public Well being Service Commissioned Corps, one of many nation’s eight uniformed companies — which additionally embody army branches just like the Military, Navy and Air Drive. Its roughly 6,000-person pressure responds to well being crises, which have included meting out coronavirus vaccines and administering care after hurricanes.