Trump HHS Changes Transgender Biden Official’s Nameplate Back to Birth Name

Articles | December 8, 2025 | by Catholics for Catholics

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Rachel Levine, the former HHS official, went back to being Richad Levine.

By Catholics for Catholics

The Department of Health and Human Services has exchanged the official portrait of a transgender former Biden administration official to show the man’s birth name, rather than his adopted woman’s name.

According to Newsmax, the Department of Health and Human Services changed the nameplate of Adm. Rachel Levine, the department’s former assistant secretary, replacing the legal name with the prior birth name: Richard Levine. The portrait is exhibited at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington next to past holders of the assistant secretary role. 

The former Health official, who today responds to the name of Rachel Levine, was promoted to the rank of admiral and served in President Joe Biden’s administration as an assistant secretary for health. Levine was born a male and was the first person who identified as transgender to secure a Senate confirmation.

Levine’s portrait plaque in the HHS offices featured the name “Rachel Levine,” up until the last government shutdown. It now shows the official’s birth name, “Richard Levine.”

Remember Admiral ‘Rachel’ Levine?

Biden’s transgender assistant health secretary

The US Dept. of HHS just changed ‘her’ name back to ‘RICHARD’ under ‘her’ official portrait pic.twitter.com/ClOHoDuY1d

— RT (@RT_com) December 7, 2025

An HHS spokesperson confirmed the change and said in a statement: “Our priority is ensuring that the information presented internally and externally by HHS reflects gold standard science.

“We remain committed to reversing harmful policies enacted by Levine and ensuring that biological reality guides our approach to public health.”

According to Fox News, Levine was a constant source of polemic during the Biden administration, claiming that there was “no argument” regarding effectiveness and safety of transgender medical procedures, and affirming that hormone blockers ought to be used to stop children from “going through the wrong puberty.”