White House Hires Its First Openly Transgender Staffer

The Huffington Post ^ | 08/18/2015 | Dayana Morales Gomez

[bob_denard]

"Raffi Freedman-Gurspan demonstrates the kind of leadership this Administration champions."

President Barack Obama's administration has appointed the first-ever transgender White House staffer.

Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, a transgender woman, is the outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. She started her new job Tuesday.

Previously, Freedman-Gurspan was a staff member at the National Center for Transgender Equality, where she served as policy adviser for the organization's Racial and Economic Justice Initiative.

“President Obama has long said he wants his Administration to look like the American people,” NCTE Executive Director Mara Keisling said. “That the first transgender appointee is a transgender woman of color is itself significant.”

Valerie Jarrett, a White House senior adviser, echoed Keisling's sentiments.

[mothball]

Will this nightmare EVER END???!!!!

[john drake]

More freaks for the circus at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. How fitting.

[sten]

the secret service must really love this crap

/sarc

[slumber1]

Who would have ever guessed

[PGR88]

Boss! The plane! The plane!

[lentulusgracchus]

First day. Closure of Freak Offices, 100% dismissals, indictments for Jarrett and Obama.

That's "fair", right? Now we get to do things our way. Without freaks and Communists.

[Cowboy Bob]

When do they plan to hire their first openly heterosexual staffer?

[nascarnation]

[Polynikes]

So is this one the replacement of the other staffer who tried to blow her cheating cop boyfriends head off?

[elpadre]

a transgender in charge of hiring, my my!!

now, just what can we expect of future WH employments??

[Dick Bachert]

Sadly, with this crew of criminals, evil no longer needs to lurk. They've shoved it right up into our faces!

Which begs THE question: WHERE THE HELL ARE THE ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS?

Oh wait. They're hiding under their desks.

never mind!

[EinNYC]

First administration I ever saw that very painstakingly looks under rocks and on the patient lists of asylums for people to staff its various offices. Finding “normal” competent people is to to the Odungo administration what a cross is to a vamp. I never saw such a collection of freaks and weirdos, starting with the top of the organization’s structure. G-d save us until this freak show hits the road, hopefully to eternal oblivion, while we mop up the damage they have caused.

[Dick Bachert]

Not until more of our fellow “citizens” get their heads out of their asses. If they fail, IT WILL ONLY GET MUCH, MUCH WORSE. Think Nazi Germany 1938 or so.

[olepap]

Meet Raffi - rumored to be the daughter of Barry’s transvestite Indonesian nanny

[Leep]

No more idiotic than the blind staff worker with a sighted assistant.

[Menehune56]

“President Obama has long said he wants his Administration to look like the American people,” NCTE Executive Director Mara Keisling said. “That the first transgender appointee is a transgender woman of color is itself significant.”

Hard to know how many "transgender women of color" there are in American but I'd say they are grossly over-represented in this administration - what a freak show!

[mothball]

Or Cambodia with Pol Pot? lol

[so_real]

"You can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monique, but it is still a pig" ...

[GoneSalt]

Kiss me and I’ll turn into a prince.

Ribbet.