Virulently Anti-LGBTQ Senior Trump Adviser Jenna Ellis Misgenders and Mocks Pennsylvania Official in Transphobic Tweet

Jenna Ellis (left), Dr. Rachel Levine (right)

Jenna Ellis, the senior legal adviser to Trump and his 2020 campaign, purposely misgendered and mocked Pennsylvania health secretary Dr. Rachel Levine in a tweet on Monday.

“This guy is making decisions about your health,” tweeted Ellis, who also shared a May 2020 article about a transphobic incident in which a reporter had repeatedly called the health secretary “sir.”

Ellis has also said HIV is “God’s moral law,” that the Stonewall Inn monument is “a celebration of sin,” and that “Christians cannot follow God and accept or condone or participate in homosexuality.”

Levine has been in the news recently after holding a press conference to respond to several acts of anti-LGBTQ and transphobic harassment against her, including a recent dunking booth at a state fair.

The Bloomsburg Fair, an annual event held for more than a century and one of the largest of its kind on the east coast, featured a dunking booth in which a man was dressed as Levine. Photos of the dunk tank, which was a benefit  for a several fire departments serving communities around Bloomsburg, were posted to the fair’s Facebook page.

Said Levine at the press conference: “I want to emphasize that while these individuals may think they are only expressing their displeasure with me, they are in fact hurting the thousands of LGBTQ Pennsylvanians who suffer directly from these current demonstrations of harassment. Your actions perpetuate a spirit of intolerance and discrimination against LGBTQ individuals and specifically transgender individuals.”

Media Matters has more on Ellis: “Ellis has also worked against bans against conversion therapy, a dangerous and discredited practice that attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. In 2019, she testified at a Colorado House committee hearing against a bill protecting youth from the practice. Ellis joined the Trump campaign as a senior legal adviser in November….

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