{"id":2411,"date":"2016-02-28T19:08:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T01:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2016-02-28T19:08:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T01:08:51","slug":"charlotte-city-council-approves-lgbt-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2411","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte City Council approves LGBT protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte, North Carolina became one of the newest cities to have LGBT protections. Voting 7-4, the measure passed after multiple hours of debate with 140 people speaking both in favor and against the measure. Via?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/article61786967.html\">The Charlotte Observer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The changes mean businesses in Charlotte can?t discriminate against gay, lesbian or transgender customers, in addition to long-standing protections based on race, age, religion and gender. The ordinance applies to places of public accommodation, such as bars, restaurants and stores. It also applies to taxis.<\/p>\n<p>The most controversial part of the ordinance would allow transgender residents to use either a men?s or women?s bathroom, depending on the gender with which they identify.<\/p>\n<p>The bathroom provision sparked the most opposition, with opponents mostly worried about the safety of women and girls in a public bathroom with people who were born male. Supporters said those fears were overblown, and that transgender people are at risk of violence in the bathroom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Charlotte, North Carolina became one of the newest cities to have LGBT protections. Voting 7-4, the measure passed after multiple hours of debate with 140 people speaking both in favor and against the measure. Via?The Charlotte Observer: The changes mean businesses in Charlotte can?t discriminate against gay, lesbian or transgender customers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[647,490,370,106],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-charlotte","tag-glbt-protections","tag-glbt-rights","tag-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","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=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}