{"id":3657,"date":"2018-05-08T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2018-05-07T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:47:12","slug":"lgbtqia-rights-roundup-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3657","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA Rights Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us.001-768x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us.001-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us.001-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us.001.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us.001-450x338.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us.001-850x638.jpeg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/us.001-667x500.jpeg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Thomas Maxheimer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/kansas-oklahoma-approve-religious-veto-on-lgbt-adoptions\">Kansas, Oklahoma approve religious veto on LGBT adoptions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joining Texas, Alabama, South Dakota, Virginia, and Michigan, Kansas and Oklahoma have approved laws making it legal for adoption agencies to deny children homes based upon the adoption agencies religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/us-surgeon-generals-call-end-intersex-surgery\/#gs.gAH_Axk\">&#8216;Stunning victory&#8217; as US Surgeons General call for an end to intersex surgery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stating that research does not support cosmetic infant genitoplasty, the Surgeon General has called for an end to this practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/lgbt-alarm-as-trump-signs-religious-liberty-exec-order\">LGBT Alarm as President Trump Signs ?Religious Liberty? Executive Order<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the National Day of Prayer, with porn star scandals playing out in the court system, President Trump signed an executive order to create a new ?faith initiative? that will take on the task of increasing ?religious liberty? issues throughout federal agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Maxheimer Kansas, Oklahoma approve religious veto on LGBT adoptions Joining Texas, Alabama, South Dakota, Virginia, and Michigan, Kansas and Oklahoma have approved laws making it legal for adoption agencies to deny children homes based upon the adoption agencies religious beliefs. &#8216;Stunning victory&#8217; as US Surgeons General call for an end to intersex surgery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","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\/3657","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=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}