{"id":3139,"date":"2017-07-20T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2017-07-13T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:35:32","slug":"lgbtqia-politics-roundup-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3139","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Politics Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LGBTQIA-Politics-Roundup-071317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"713\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/transgender-army-cadet-trained-serve-banned-becoming-military-officer\/\">Transgender army cadet trained to serve but was banned from becoming a military officer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since Dosh came out before she graduated, the process of becoming an officer got much more difficult.? In fact, when graduation time came, she was told she wouldn?t be commissioned into the army because she was transgender.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/texas-republican-blocks-trans-bathroom-bill-didnt-want-single-suicide-hands\/\">Texas Republican blocks trans bathroom bill because he &#8216;didn&#8217;t want a single suicide&#8217; on his hands<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transgendered people have an unlikely ally in Texas Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus.? He recently pushed back on a bill that discriminated against trans people.? Straus may have been aware that the National Center for Transgender Equality?s study found 40% of trans people have attempted to end their life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/how-trump-broke-promises-lgbtq-community\">All the Ways Donald Trump Broke His Promises to LGBTQ People<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of his campaign proclamations, the Trump administration has rolled back many LGBT protections.? Teen Vogue details them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Transgender army cadet trained to serve but was banned from becoming a military officer Since Dosh came out before she graduated, the process of becoming an officer got much more difficult.? In fact, when graduation time came, she was told she wouldn?t be commissioned into the army because she was transgender. Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","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\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}