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First Transgender Presidential Appointee Fears Being Labeled 'Token'
abc ^ | 1/5/09 | RUSSELL GOLDMAN

Posted on 01/05/2010 3:34:51 PM PST by Nachum

Amanda Simpson Says It Was Her Merits, Not Gender Identity, That Got Her Commerce Job

For Amanda Simpson, believed to be America's first openly transgender presidential appointee, the job she starts Tuesday in the U.S. Commerce Department is an honor and the culmination of a career dedicated to understanding military technology.

But what gnaws at her, she says, is the fear of being labeled a token who was hired because of her sexual identity rather than on her merits.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: appointee; bho44; bhohomosexualagenda; first; freakshow; gayvote; homosexualagenda; token; transgender
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OK. How about "Hussy", "Tramp!", or Vixen?
1 posted on 01/05/2010 3:34:55 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Or how about FUGLY? or GUILTY!?


2 posted on 01/05/2010 3:36:07 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: Nachum

Amanda, don’t you know that all of us, including yourself and your appointer, know you’re a token?


3 posted on 01/05/2010 3:36:32 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Nachum

Freak. There’s no other way to state it.


4 posted on 01/05/2010 3:36:39 PM PST by MGMSwordsman
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To: Nachum

Or how about “Fruitcake”, “Insane”, or just plain “Repulsive”?


5 posted on 01/05/2010 3:37:13 PM PST by hoagy62 (Obama: slowly sucking the positive attitude out of the US since 11-4-08)
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To: Nachum
But what gnaws at her, she says, is the fear of being labeled a token...

If the shoe fits...


6 posted on 01/05/2010 3:37:34 PM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Nachum

GOD help us.
The majority of us have not done anything to deserve the utter destruction of America.

PLEASE help us. AMEN


7 posted on 01/05/2010 3:38:37 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: Nachum
First Transgender Presidential Appointee Fears Being Labeled is 'Token'.

There fixed it.

8 posted on 01/05/2010 3:39:04 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Democrats: the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy and Sedition)
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To: Nachum
"Token"

The name is already taken.


9 posted on 01/05/2010 3:39:11 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Nachum

So, just say no.

Crawl back to where you were and forget it.


10 posted on 01/05/2010 3:39:11 PM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: MGMSwordsman

There you go! Freak, and she had to sacrifice a body part I treasure to qualify as a freak. How dim can a Dim be?


11 posted on 01/05/2010 3:39:44 PM PST by JohnQ1 ("(BHO) can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - A Lincoln)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Token shemale ?

That’s a new one.


12 posted on 01/05/2010 3:40:06 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Nachum
For Amanda Simpson, believed to be America's first openly transgender presidential appointee, the job she starts Tuesday in the U.S. Commerce Department is an honor and the culmination of a career dedicated to understanding military technology.

So there were other transsexual officials before who were just really good at hiding it?

13 posted on 01/05/2010 3:40:44 PM PST by x
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To: Nachum

I prefer “pervert freak”.


14 posted on 01/05/2010 3:41:20 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Nachum
Amanda Simpson Says It Was Her Merits, Not Gender Identity, That Got Her Commerce Job

While that may be absolutely true, it would be ANOTHER FIRST!

15 posted on 01/05/2010 3:41:20 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: Nachum

Unvetted and unknown, we have a POtuS in the White House that is a complete cipher. All the idiots in the country who keep referring to Obama as a genius because he was “the first African American Editor of the Harvard Law Review” should be reminded that a lot of “firsts” have no significance beyond that simple fact of being first in unusual circumstances.

The “first” black ballplayer in Boston Red Sox history - the LAST team in MLB to integrate, ironically, was Jerry “Pumpsie” Green who played a few short and unremarkable years and was out of baseball entirely before he was 30, He can be found, though, in all of the history books because he was a “first” in what was considered a bigoted organization.

Ironically, Pumpsie had a brother, Cornell, who was a tremendous athlete, the 5 time Pro-Bowler for the Dallas Cowboys. He made five Pro Bowls at two different positions - cornerback and strong safety. Green never missed a game in 13 seasons with the Cowboys (1962-74) and played 168 games, including 145 consecutive starts for the Cowboys between 1962-1974.

Absent Obama’s general collegiate records, indicating his course work, written grade scores and SAT’s etc., we don’t know how smart this guy is ... but I’m going out on a limb and saying he is more like Pumpsie Green than Cornell Green...he’s just the “first” to come along...

Anybody, even someone of little talent can become famous and be a “first” or a celebrity...but the guy who shows up on game day and straps it on is the guy who will be remembered for being someone special.


16 posted on 01/05/2010 3:41:37 PM PST by jessduntno ("Speak endlessly and carry a small stick..." - B. Hussein Obama)
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To: Nachum

Well, I’ll not be posting a photo.....


17 posted on 01/05/2010 3:41:57 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: Nachum

AFRAID OF LOSING VICTIM STATUS!


18 posted on 01/05/2010 3:42:33 PM PST by maggief
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To: Nachum

Shim says what?


19 posted on 01/05/2010 3:44:05 PM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: Nachum

“Being the first sucks,” she told ABC News.”

Well, true, but now she can without being labeled a queer.

I swear, The JOKER is in charge of this administration.


20 posted on 01/05/2010 3:44:43 PM PST by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "P" in democrat stands for patriotism)
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To: Nachum

“But what gnaws at her, she says, is the fear of being labeled a token”

I’m pretty sure that being labeled a “token” is about as good as it gets for he/she.

Perhaps it will look back fondly on those days of being called a “token tranny”.


21 posted on 01/05/2010 3:44:49 PM PST by RFEngineer
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To: Nachum

1. Transgender appointed for no other reason by 0bama administration.

2.Corrupt 0bama administration dies at the hands of American voters.

3.Those in transgender and other protected classes fail to be appointed or elected for generations.

0bama: Yes you can!


22 posted on 01/05/2010 3:44:49 PM PST by paulycy (AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
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To: Nachum
If this surgically mutilated thing is more concerned about being a token before even starting the job, then this thing is not qualified for the position it holds.

I would think that one would be boasting about ones qualifications instead of being hung up on ones sexual what ever it is.

23 posted on 01/05/2010 3:50:30 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Nachum

Maybe then she can explain why the first thing she said after being appointed was that this was a great victory for transgenders everywhere.


24 posted on 01/05/2010 3:52:29 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Nachum

I don’t have a problem with this appointment. She worked in aerospace for 30 years and is highly qualified for the technical position she’s getting.


25 posted on 01/05/2010 3:53:43 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

For the record, what evidence do you have that there was any surgery?


26 posted on 01/05/2010 3:54:32 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . What ever I do is what shall be)
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To: paulycy
Transgender was a term that I wasn't at all interested in learning until it came up here in FR.

This is a very educational blog. I now know what it means and it still doesn't interest me!

27 posted on 01/05/2010 3:55:08 PM PST by mckenzie7 (I am a European American! Silly me. I never realized that before! Thanks, oh great unifier!)
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To: Nachum

Token?

Oh come on aMANda, you were the absolute most qualified tranny that the Obama could find.


28 posted on 01/05/2010 3:55:29 PM PST by dman4384
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To: mckenzie7
I now know what it means and it still doesn't interest me!

But you're smarter now. FR Rules! ;0)

29 posted on 01/05/2010 3:57:15 PM PST by paulycy (AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
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To: Nachum
First Transgender Presidential Appointee Fears Being Labeled 'Token'

Well Duh !!

30 posted on 01/05/2010 4:01:14 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: colorado tanker
Thirty years in aerospace, huh? Without seeing a factual and detailed work history, we can't know whether that is really 30 years or merely "time in grade", e.g., 1 year 30 times...

In other words, what did she learn and what did she actually achieve?

31 posted on 01/05/2010 4:03:13 PM PST by Czar (NRA Life Member)
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To: Czar

She’s a former test pilot and was Deputy Director in Advanced Technology Development at Raytheon Missile Systems before her government appointment. Raytheon obviously thought she added value.


32 posted on 01/05/2010 4:10:17 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Nachum

Amanda is a token, nya, nya, nya, nya, nya!


33 posted on 01/05/2010 4:12:48 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: bert

it’s ding dong shrunk on it’s own?


34 posted on 01/05/2010 4:17:23 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: UCANSEE2
While that may be absolutely true, it would be ANOTHER FIRST!

If she's paid her taxes, that certainly would be another appointee FIRST.

35 posted on 01/05/2010 4:17:47 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: Nachum

Token what????? Thing?

Besides, I thought the left was opposed to government promotion of Genetically Modified Fruit.


36 posted on 01/05/2010 4:20:21 PM PST by conservativeharleyguy (Democrats: Over 60 million fooled daily!)
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To: Nachum

What a freak show. Our government is not only corrupt but becoming the Jerry Springer show.

How shameful


37 posted on 01/05/2010 4:24:11 PM PST by DwFry (Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
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To: colorado tanker

On the face of that, I would say that’s a good 30 years of experience.


38 posted on 01/05/2010 4:26:44 PM PST by Czar (NRA Life Member)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

All I know is what I learned on CSI where a Transvestite doctor did surgery in a storage unit. Several of the “girls” did not have and were opposed to having the operation.

Also, on NCIS, Dinozzo hooked up with and kissed what he later learned was a man to the general merriment of his colleagues kate and McGee


39 posted on 01/05/2010 4:28:37 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . What ever I do is what shall be)
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To: bert

darn. Problem with me is, I don’t watch tv.


40 posted on 01/05/2010 4:31:01 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Nachum

***Token Degenerate Alert***


41 posted on 01/05/2010 4:34:25 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Nachum

Aunt Joe


42 posted on 01/05/2010 4:36:12 PM PST by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: Nachum

Amanda, you are a very confused man.

Neither dresses nor scalpels can ever change that fact.


43 posted on 01/05/2010 4:37:50 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: bert
oops, sorry, I think I misunderstood you.
So you're saying this thing may still have its thing?Well, if it still has its thing, then it is not fully sure what gender it wants to be and thus is a basket case.
44 posted on 01/05/2010 4:41:41 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Nachum

Token? Is it kidding me? There are more perverts in this administration than you can shake a stick at. Token, my eye.


45 posted on 01/05/2010 4:48:16 PM PST by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

If I had the nerve I could ask someone who knows.

I was in Jaycees for years and served on the Board with a fine guy. We drank beer and worked hard. He was married with two kids.

One day he announced to the world he would henceforth be a woman and feminised his name. He had to work some wonders to keep his job, but did and even ended up owning the business. She is now doing extremely well and has even set up her kids in their own businesses.

I am her customer still and when I inadvertently call her by her man name, she doesn’t flinch. Strange......very strange


46 posted on 01/05/2010 4:53:22 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . What ever I do is what shall be)
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To: Travis McGee

“She” still has that pesky little Y chromosome, dick or no dick.


47 posted on 01/05/2010 4:54:51 PM PST by Gapplega
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To: Nachum

No balls for the job.


48 posted on 01/05/2010 4:58:04 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: UCANSEE2

“it would be ANOTHER FIRST!”

What, appointment on merits?


49 posted on 01/05/2010 5:00:20 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: Nachum

She/He won’t be the first token screw-up,tax cheat, communist, convicted felon, etc, to be appointed by Obama and probably won’t be the last.


50 posted on 01/05/2010 5:03:48 PM PST by Dapper 26
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