{"id":3539,"date":"2018-02-20T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2018-02-19T10:38:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T15:38:22","slug":"lgbtqia-rights-roundup-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3539","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Rights Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-021918-768x357.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-021918-768x357.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-021918-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-021918-1024x476.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-021918-450x209.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-021918-850x395.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-021918-1000x464.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/LGBTQIA-Rights-Roundup-021918.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2018\/02\/record-number-transgender-candidates-running-2018-thats-good-america\/\">There are a record number of transgender candidates running in 2018 &amp; that?s good for America<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-politics-lgbt\/dollars-data-support-record-number-of-transgender-u-s-election-candidates-idUSKBN1FS0NF?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">Reuters<\/a>, there are over 40 transgender candidates running in political races across the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-court-pick-anti-lgbti\/\">Yet another one of Donald Trump&#8217;s court picks is horribly anti-LGBTI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After calling marriage equality an assault on nature, Gordon Giampietro will fill a vacant seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/zoetillman\/one-of-trumps-judicial-nominees-once-wrote-that-diversity\">BuzzFeed<\/a> lists additional anti-LGBTQ comments.? Lambda Legal has estimated more than one-third of Trump?s court picks are anti-LGBTQ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/arizona-lawmakers-push-third-gender-option-drivers-licenses\/\">Arizona lawmakers push for a third gender option on driver&#8217;s licenses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have introduced two bills to help transgender and non-binary people in the state.? The first bill allows driver?s licenses to contain a third gender option. ?The second bill requires death certificates to reflect the person?s gender identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer There are a record number of transgender candidates running in 2018 &amp; that?s good for America According to Reuters, there are over 40 transgender candidates running in political races across the United States. Yet another one of Donald Trump&#8217;s court picks is horribly anti-LGBTI After calling marriage equality an assault on nature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3539","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\/3539","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=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}