{"id":3503,"date":"2018-01-30T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2018-01-28T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T01:43:05","slug":"lgbtqia-right-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3503","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Right Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Slide1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Slide1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Slide1-1.png 576w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Slide1-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Slide1-1-450x600.png 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Slide1-1-375x500.png 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/gay-dads-sue-one-twin-denied-us-citizenship\/#gs.jikekEo\">Gay dads file lawsuit after one twin is denied US citizenship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While heterosexual couples are not required to take paternity tests, same-sex married couples are.? Two fathers of twins were required to take DNA tests and subsequently one of their children, of the father who was not a U.S. citizen, was denied citizenship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2018\/01\/trans-teen-fighting-escape-abusive-parents-conversion-therapy\/?utm_source=LGBTQ+Nation+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=2cb5337e77-20180128_LGBTQ_Nation_Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c4eab596bd-2cb5337e77-429500585\">A trans teen is fighting to escape his abusive parents &amp; conversion therapy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After living in terror with his parents, who reportedly refused any therapy for their trans teen unless it was religious-based conversion therapy, the child is suing to be allowed to live with his supportive grandparents.? Court records indicate the child was told by the father that to go ahead and ?kill yourself? after the teen mentioned suicidal ideation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newnownext.com\/an-anti-trans-book-is-topping-amazons-gay-lesbian-best-seller-list\/01\/2018\/?fb_ref=fbshare_web\">An Anti-Trans Book Is Topping Amazon?s Gay &amp; Lesbian Best-Seller List<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Harry Became Sally&#8221; by Ryan T. Anderson argues trans identity is &#8220;a politically correct fad built on a shaky platform.&#8221;? He goes on to write, ?The best biology, psychology, and philosophy all support an understanding of sex as a bodily reality and of gender as a social manifestation of bodily sex.? ?It is unclear how the book reached #1 status, but <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/902504\/how-to-become-a-best-selling-author-on-amazon-in-five-minutes-with-three-dollars\/\">Quartz points out serious problems with Amazon?s ?best-selling? list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Gay dads file lawsuit after one twin is denied US citizenship While heterosexual couples are not required to take paternity tests, same-sex married couples are.? Two fathers of twins were required to take DNA tests and subsequently one of their children, of the father who was not a U.S. citizen, was denied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","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\/3503","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}