The Obama administration made history today by hiring the first openly transgender official in White House history.
Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, who formerly served as a policy advisor at the National Center for Transgender Equality, has been hired as an outreach and recruitment director in the White House Office of Personnel.
President Obama made equality for the LGBT community a priority of his administration, and advocates are now praising the president for diversifying his White House. Mara Keisling, executive
director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said: