福克斯新闻 美国白宫任命首位公开变性身份官员

Raffi Freedman-Gurspan began work at the White House today serving as an Outreach and Recruitment Director in the Presidential Personnel¹ Office.

佛里德曼·葛斯潘今天开始出任白宫总统人事办公室招聘事务主管。

With her new job, Freedman-Gurspan becomes the first openly transgender appointee to work inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

凭借这份新工作, 佛里德曼·葛斯潘成为宾夕法尼亚大街1600号首位公开变性身份的白宫行政官员。

Freedman-Gurspan was also the first transgender woman to work in the Massachusetts State House where she was instrumental² in passing the state's Transgender Equal Rights Law.

同时葛斯潘也是马萨诸塞州议会的第一位变性女人,在这里她曾经为了通过变性人平等权利的法律而贡献自己的力量。

Before taking on her current role, Freedman-Gurspan was the a policy adviser³ at the National Center for Transgender Equality.

在这份新工作前，葛斯潘曾在国家跨性别平权中心任职，担任种族及经济正义的政策顾问。

1 personnel   

n.[总称]人员，员工，人事部门

参考例句：

• The personnel are not happy to change these rules.全体工作人员对改变这些规定很不高兴。
• Personnel has lost my tax forms.人事部门把我的税收表格给弄丢了。

2 instrumental   

adj.仪器的，器械的，乐器的，起作用的，有帮助的

参考例句：

• It is an instrumental work.这是一部可以用乐器演奏的作品。
• He was instrumental in catching the criminal.在捉拿那个罪犯的过程中，他起了作用。

3 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。