{"id":3463,"date":"2018-01-10T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2018-01-08T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:48:37","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-roundup-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3463","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA US News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Tricia Boucher<\/em><\/p>\n

Judge refuses to order school to suspend transgender policy<\/a><\/p>\n

US District Judge Jorge Alonso?s refusal to order a Chicago-area school to suspend it?s transgender policy that allows transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice will probably be appealed, and is expected to end up in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Massachusetts asks judge to toss transgender prison inmate’s lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n

The state of Massachusetts argued that a transgender woman who is housed in a men?s prison is not protected by the American with Disabilities Act since it specifically does not protect transgender persons.<\/p>\n

Man Who Used Dating App to Assault, Rob Gay Men Gets Prison<\/a><\/p>\n

Nigel Garret, one of four Texas men charged with various hate crimes for which they used Grindr to find their victims, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n

After coming out, H.S. football star is headed to Indiana State<\/a><\/p>\n

Jake Bain from St. Louis, MO came out during a school assembly to support other LGBTQ athletes.? Despite the slurs from opposing teams, the support of his school, team, and coach made it possible for him to succeed and earn a scholarship from Indiana State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tricia Boucher Judge refuses to order school to suspend transgender policy US District Judge Jorge Alonso?s refusal to order a Chicago-area school to suspend it?s transgender policy that allows transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice will probably be appealed, and is expected to end up in the Supreme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","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=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}