{"id":2479,"date":"2016-04-24T09:42:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2016-04-24T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T14:42:40","slug":"espn-fires-commentator-over-transphobic-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2479","title":{"rendered":"ESPN fires commentator over transphobic joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n

Curt Schilling, a former professional baseball player and current ESPN commentator, has been fired from ESPN for sharing a transphobic meme and making transphobic comments on Facebook. Via New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Schilling, who had worked for the network since 2010 and most recently offered analysis on ?Monday Night Baseball,? was dismissed after sharing a Facebook post this week that appeared to respond to the North Carolina law that bars transgender people from using bathrooms<\/a> and locker rooms that do not correspond with their birth genders.<\/p>\n

The post showed an overweight man wearing a wig and women?s clothing with parts of the T-shirt cut out to expose his breasts. It says: ?LET HIM IN! to the restroom with your daughter or else you?re a narrow-minded, judgmental, unloving racist bigot who needs to die.?<\/p>\n

To that, Schilling added: ?A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don?t care what they are, who they sleep with, men?s room was designed for the penis, women?s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic.?<\/p>\n

?ESPN<\/a> is an inclusive company,? ESPN said in a statement<\/a>. ?Curt Schilling<\/a>has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By John Mack Freeman Curt Schilling, a former professional baseball player and current ESPN commentator, has been fired from ESPN for sharing a transphobic meme and making transphobic comments on Facebook. Via New York Times: Schilling, who had worked for the network since 2010 and most recently offered analysis on ?Monday Night Baseball,? was dismissed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58,57],"tags":[699,700,226,701],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","category-media-of-note","tag-curt-schilling","tag-espn","tag-social-media","tag-transphobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","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=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}