{"id":1974,"date":"2015-06-21T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2015-06-21T15:28:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T20:28:38","slug":"first-trans-guest-joins-big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1974","title":{"rendered":"First Trans Guest Joins Big Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reality show <em>Big Brother<\/em> will soon welcome its first ever trans guest. Audrey Middleton, a young transwoman and major fan of the show, will be one of its contestants in the new season starting June 24. Profiles were released for the new contestants on CBS&#8217;s web site earlier in the week, but no mention was made of Middleton&#8217;s gender at first, until <a href=\" http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2015\/06\/16\/big-brother-welcomes-first-transgender-house-guest\/\">TMZ posted an article sharing the news<\/a>. Shortly thereafter, CBS released a statement confirming Middleton&#8217;s identity. (via <a href=\" http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2015\/06\/17\/big-brother-transgender-woman-audrey-middleton\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley R. Lierman Reality show Big Brother will soon welcome its first ever trans guest. Audrey Middleton, a young transwoman and major fan of the show, will be one of its contestants in the new season starting June 24. Profiles were released for the new contestants on CBS&#8217;s web site earlier in the week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[148,150,149],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","tag-big-brother","tag-reality-television","tag-trans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}