{"id":3176,"date":"2017-08-01T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2017-07-28T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T15:09:49","slug":"lgbtqia-rights-roundup-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3176","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Rights Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n

Chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee on Trump’s Total Transgender Ban: Not So Fast<\/a><\/p>\n

Republican Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee which oversees the U.S. Military, released a statement indicating that neither he nor his Committee were consulted or informed about Trump?s ban on transgender service members. There are approximately 10,000-15,000 active duty service members currently serving.<\/p>\n

Rhode Island Becomes 10th State to Ban Harmful Gay Conversion Therapy for Minors<\/a><\/p>\n

Governor Gina Raimondo signed a bill that bans so called ?conversion therapy? for minors.? The other states that have laws protecting youth are: Connecticut, California, Nevada, New Jersey, the District of Columbia, Oregon, Illinois, Vermont, New York, and New Mexico.<\/p>\n

Lawsuit filed against North Carolina?s new ?bathroom bill?<\/a><\/p>\n

The ACLU and Lambda Legal continue the fight for transgender rights by calling the HB2 replacement bill, HB142 a ?discriminatory replacement? which fails to address the harmful aspects of the original bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Thomas Maxheimer Chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee on Trump’s Total Transgender Ban: Not So Fast Republican Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee which oversees the U.S. Military, released a statement indicating that neither he nor his Committee were consulted or informed about Trump?s ban on transgender service members. There are […]<\/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-3176","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\/3176","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=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}