![]() “When they’re posting these kinds of things, they’re looking for validation and support, and it helps spread the poison throughout the agency.” There’s been a number of these across the country,” said Linda Simpson, a retired transgender Wyoming police officer and co-founder of the international advocacy organization Transgender Community of Police and Sheriffs. One post crudely insults her gender identity by comparing her photo to one of former Surgeon General Jerome Adams - a cisgender man - while another implies through photos and text that Levine’s weight should be disqualifying to her serving as an assistant secretary of health. The posts, viewed in screenshots by this news organization, appear to attack Levine’s appearance and fitness as a health expert. Police sources told this news organization that as an IA investigation was underway, Cleaver faced reassignment to patrol - he had been in an administrative post supervising reserve officers - and instead opted to end his nearly three-decade career. Todd Cleaver were made in January, after Rachel Levine was first nominated by President Joe Biden, and quickly made their way to internal-affairs investigators at SJPD. SAN JOSE - A longtime San Jose Police Department veteran has retired amid an investigation into transphobic social-media posts mocking the Biden administration’s newly seated assistant secretary of health, who just became the nation’s first openly transgender Senate-confirmed federal official.
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