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.

[Gamecock]

What an ugly woman.

[Secret Agent Man]

Thats right, Mooch is there by marriage.

[ichabod1]

Michael Savage used to say the old Chicom way was you put the surgeon to sweeping the floor, and put the janitor in the operating suite, and that janitor better not make any mistakes or it’s off to the reeducation camp.

[Da Coyote]

No one, NO ONE, currently infesting the White House is not a freak.

And that specifically includes Dorkbama the Muslim.

[Reynoldo]

Laz - I’d be interested in your 2¢ worth

[Lazamataz]

She is my future wife. Uh, husband. Er, thing.

[Starstruck]

Thats right, Mooch is there by marriage.

But was that marriage legal at the time?

[Lazamataz]

“President Obama has long said he wants his Administration to look like the American people,"

If this is what America looks like, then I have officially changed my position on Iran getting nuclear weapons.

Iran NEEDS nuclear weapons, and ICBMs capable of hitting America.

By the way, Iran, we are the GREAT SATAN, who got the Shah into power. The Shah tortured millions and hated Islam.

[Lazamataz]

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

....and that's not even counting Michelle!

[Secret Agent Man]

Weĺl, it self-identifies as married. And spouses can be beards. Or have parts held down with duct tape, usually.

[tumblindice]

Laz, it looks like the short list of things, mammals, vegetables and minerals, that you will not hit just got a little bit longer.

[tuffydoodle]

Yes, it will. I’ve read in the end of the Book.