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James Hartley

Twitter flags Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's tweet about US assistant health secretary, who is transgender

FORT WORTH, Texas — Twitter has decided it would be in the public's best interest to keep a tweet from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on its website after he called U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine a man.

Levine, who was named one of USA Today's Women of the Year, is transgender and a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

USA Today's list also includes Olympic athlete Simone Biles and Dallas-born former Microsoft computer scientist Melinda French Gates.

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