Transgender is a mental illness. Someone should not be in charge of the nation's health who suffers from this.
But all that aside, this is an Occam's razor-ish type thing - you had an admin that went over the top with virtue signaling, and openly stating they wanted the most diverse cabinet, and even went as far as listing skin color and sex as the starting criteria for VP. Given that, do you really think the best possible qualified candidate for this just happened to be trans?
It would be hard to quantify what is and what isn’t a mental illness without some opinion or subjectivity. Most people are fucked up in the head in some way. I know I am. Personally, what ever makes you happy. I don’t care. I don’t believe transgender is a mental illness. Now, I do believe some transgenders are mentally ill and some are not. I know transgenders who are perfectly happy with themselves and live satisfying productive lives.
I don’t know who else was being considered. I acknowledge the political angle to this and suspect they were chosen for political reasons. But again, as I said, I don’t have all the facts in front of me.
To clear this out a bit:
If there was a better qualified candidate that I felt could make my vision a reality I would have picked them.
Loyalty wouldn’t be as an important factor as whether or not they shared the same vision and had the ability to make it happen would be.
As president I would be forced to consider the political side of appointing someone as a factor. I hate that shit.