Biden pick for health department has a terrible record, but Democrats care more that Rachel Levine is transgender

Liberal Democrats can breathe easy. President-elect Joe Biden's latest Cabinet pick did not go, as they had so darkly feared, to another straight white man.

It went to transgender woman Rachel Levine, who currently sits as the secretary of health in Pennsylvania.

Of course, liberals care about whether Levine checks some race, gender, or sexual identity box far more than they care whether she's actually qualified for the job. That's why "transgender" made the headlines rather than, say, "COVID-19 hero" or "popular state-level administrator."