One of the four health agency leaders forced out of the CDC has blasted press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s remarks over his use of the term “pregnant people.”

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who says he spent his career as a gay rights supporter, was outraged at attempts by the Trump administration to erase transgender people from the public eye.

Daskalakis resigned from his position as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases on Wednesday in response to the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, who was appointed to the role by President Donald Trump.

In an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Daskalakis responded to Leavitt’s remarks on his use of the term “pregnant people”, telling Collins, “I accept the note and I don’t care.”

At her press briefing on Thur

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