Obama White House Hires First Openly Transgender Staffer

The White House has hired its first openly transgender staffer, the Obama administration announced Tuesday.

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Mashable reported that the administration has named Raffi Freedman-Gurspan as the outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the Office of Personnel months after she participated in the White House briefing on the state of transgender women of color. Freedman-Gurspan previously worked as a policy adviser for the National Center for Transgender Equality and spearheaded the organization’s racial and economic justice initiative. She also worked on the staff of former Rep. Carl Sciortino, Jr., in the Massachusetts State House. More...