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Protecting Trans people and all people in the USA sometimes means putting your narcissism aside and retiring with grace instead of hanging on long past time you can perform your duties so that monsters like the current admin doesn't come to power.

I guess we need to start calling the VP James David Bowman.

Our federal government is staffed by middle school bullies.

Sure they will. They are not governing. They are too busy trolling and tap dancing around Epstein files & 1% Tax cuts. I had to call Social Security to ask a question for a hearing impaired friend 2 days ago. My wait time on the phone was 180 minutes. Thank you Elon Musk and President poopy pants.

I was presuming they'd be rewritten as Mrs. [insert husband's full name]

It's the only thing he's good at

This is temporary.

This is cruel.

This is vile

What a bunch of petty asshats we have running our federal government.

Always keep in mind: The only reason stuff like this happens is because the Republican Party is ok with it. They chose Trump to be their leader & standard bearer THREE times, worked hard to put him in power, & they do what it takes to keep him there. Deplorable indeed.

G"Old standard science." An almost literal cover up of gold film unto a corpse rapidly rotting from within. Thank you, NPR, for maintaining her honour and respecting her.

grotesque. did they photoshop a man’s uniform and haircut onto her too?

Fuck those fascist Republican assholes.

Wasting our tax dollars on puerile, petty crap like this. 😡

“The current assistant secretary for health is Adm. Brian Christine, a urologist from Alabama who was confirmed by the Senate in October.” Call him and your Senator.

I'm sure changing the name on Admiral Rachel Levine's portrait will help Americans afford health care and groceries!

Levine is male-bodied, right?

Dear Leader Donald's administration is assholes all the way down.

That is her legal name tho.

So disgusting

The perfect word for that context.

This maladministration is the most cowardly, the most bigoted, the most incompetent, the most corrupt, and likely the most dangerous to America, in American history.

F'ckers.

Is there already a comprehensive list of every inch of slime that is to be undone once these monstrous, immature, vindictive slugs are gone. If not, I am willing to curate one.

Deplorable

People who believe that the earth is 6000 years old have no business lecturing anyone on biology

Oh, God. How awful.

Petty little dicked men in charge suuuucks!

npr, you don’t seem to understand - its not a previous name, it’s a deadname ? …. isn’t that the point of writing an article about it ?

They have nothing better to do than go around and act like middle school bullies?

Untill every transgender person has been returned to the closet, forced to deny who they are, or takes their own lives out of desperation, this pack of opportunists, fear marketers, and un-Christian deviants will not be satisfied

This is so remarkably foul. The stench, the stink of this administration makes is almost unbearable to even breathe. I do want to thank @npr.org for only calling Admiral Levine by her real name -- Admiral Rachel Levine.

This is just ghoulish behavior.

Petty, childish mother fuckers.

this shit is brutal, evil

I never bother with the last name. (Though, adoption by stepparent is a perfectly legitimate reason for last name change.) I won't give him the respect of using ANY of his last names, however. He's a little man and so I won't give him and respect, including use of his title, for that matter.

I like “Vance”. It means “worm” in Yiddish.

I call him the Couch Fucker

Please, everyone knows that it’s Just Dance. 😉

I've repeatedly casually referred to him as "Jeffrey Dahmer Vance" and have yet to be corrected.

I use Justa Dick.

What's funny is that JD seems to have genuine identity problems

💯 there's no such thing as a "biological name"-- names are arbitrary, and people can and do change theirs all the time. Even presidents have changed names. Grant's original full name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He changed it to Ulysses S Grant at West Point, fortunately, so he wasn't General HUG.

Agree except I call vance POS

Kudos to NPR for calling her by her legal name and referring to her deadname as simply "a prior name". And seriously, it's so fucking gross how they just will always choose to be gross bigots. I still cannot fathom LGBT and POC Republicans. You really think a R next to your name will save you?

HHS giving petty bigoted assholery a whole new level.

That is so fucked up. Especially since they wouldn’t do this to Caitlin Jenner. The hypocrisy, incompetence and cruelty is just astounding

No, they're quite simply f**king bastards.

Disgusting.

There are insufficient words to describe the fate I wish every last fucking bigot should have to suffer.

Where everything is named after him. Have you all figured it out yet? He used you, and is still doing it.

A legal name is just that. Nobody has a right to rename you (of course satire is fair game…e.g. DonOld)

Its a HE.

The spiteful and evil actions of this administration never cease. There is no bottom for these disgusting clowns.

Forgive me, but I can’t think of a kinder way to put this: what a group of malevolent scumbags.

i weep daily at every action and this hurts my heart dearly to see such intentional pain inflected

100% correct the giant toddler.

Sickening

What kind of freak would do something this petty? God get these shitbag republicans off this fucking planet already. Fuck off to somewhere else they can ruin.

Despicable

Just like they “embraced” Milo Yiannopoulis when they wanted a token gay man, or Ben Carson when they wanted a token Black man. They use token minorities as a way to, very literally, go “I’m not a bigot, I have a Black friend?”. But eventually? Those tokens get spent.

The trump name was originally Drumpf, shouldn't the "gold standard" require we use that original version?

Good on you for not dead-naming her in the article. WTF does science have to do with her name change? It’s a legal name change. What absolute filth is running our country.

horrible action by HHS and while you should have said dead name, I'd like to thank you for not using the dead name in the article.

Just a bunch of bully children running this administration

What ghouls these people are.

The extinction bursts (I pray)

i actually wonder if the withdrawal of federal support for public media has emboldened NPR to truly act like journalism is the 4th estate and needs to speak truth to power

I hope everyone working for this administration drops dead tonight.

#TrumpPortraitPageant

The gov should spend more time on governing and less on vindictiveness.

So cruel.

She'll still be there long after those clowns are gone.

I’d call this childish, but children haven’t lived long enough to have their brains poisoned by reactionary social media.

Bigotry.

I have nothing but seething hatred for everyone who voted for this violent regime.

Really determined to drive the rump unfavorables up.

Very good point that I hadn't even considered. Glad she isn't engaging but that doesn't stop the rest of us from making the petty acts of small minded people and our reactions, public.

Sick people in the white house who don’t understand honor and commitment to our country against all odds.

This administration does not place importance on the quality or length of service from these military people. Like other bullies, they just target a sensitive point and twist it until someone cries 'uncle'.

This infuriates me. The cruelty is the point.

Disgusting. Disgusting. Disgusting behavior for them to do that. Let people be who they are happiest being and they will excel at their jobs just like Rachel has. Learn learned from these things.

Pure evil

gun

We will fix it when they are gone, but still, it pisses me off.

Really fucking heinous

I think "defaced" is more accurate

Yes. I want *every* little thing noted and flagged for correction.

💔

These are incredibly small and petty people.

Yes they ate can’t wait till they are all in jail spending their money on legal fees for eternity.

Disgusting, isn't that a crime,defaming property

Fucking Nazis

Hegseth's demand for constant, public disrespect to transgender Americans is all over this. Hegseth is the one who should be disrespected. Not Admiral Levine.

The cruelty is the point.

how is this even legal? everything Admiral Levine did is documented under her name. Changing her name on the portrait, even circulating a name that isn't hers separates her from her accomplishments. wow - I guessJames Donald Bowman's official portrait was altered too - how does he feel about it?

middle school bullies run the government

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Vile.

Miserable b*******s. They’re just never happy unless they find a way to humiliate someone different than them.🤬

The pettiness is beyond compare. It’s so ridiculous.

Well well

This administration seems to wake up every morning and go out of their way to look for opportunities to be an asshole.

I hate all of these anti-Christ, evil f*ckers. Their version of Jesus must be a raging asshole. #transrightsarehumanrights

This is a level of pettiness that is so troubling. The fact that this was done by government officials is downright sickening.

The level of disrespect is OFF THE CHARTS!

its gonna be worse until it gets better cornered animals and all that

What a bunch of pathetic, insecure, threatened man-babies we have running this country.

Ms. Levine, if you happen to see this, I'm sorry. I know you're smart enough to know that not everyone agrees with this, but I want to reiterate that more people support you than don't. ❤️

She a bigger person than Trump or anyone in his regime will ever be.

So let’s go with Vice President James Bowman now.

That's awful:(

It's almost as if they have a "Secretary of Evil Deeds" whose job is to seek out opportunities to be as despicable as possible. I mean, who is coming up with this shit? The cruelty is deliberate.