{"id":3669,"date":"2018-05-16T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2018-05-14T07:44:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:44:40","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-roundup-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3669","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA US News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tricia Boucher<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-lgbt-prisons\/u-s-rolls-back-protections-for-transgender-prison-inmates-idUSKCN1ID0O3\">U.S. rolls back protections for transgender prison inmates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Prisons decided to roll back protections for transgender inmates ? housing them according to their biological sex rather than their identified gender.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/mama-dragons-mormon-mom-group-provides-support-lgbtq-kids-each-n873526\">&#8216;Mama Dragons&#8217;: Mormon mom group provides support to LGBTQ kids ? and each other<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With more than 1,700 members in 19 countries, Mama Dragons ? started by Mormon moms but open to all people of all faiths ? are providing resources each other as they love and support their LGBTQ kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/may\/12\/oklahoma-governor-pleases-gun-control-lgbt-adoption\">Oklahoma governor pleases gun control groups but angers LGBT campaigners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Fallin signed a bill that allows religious organizations that provide foster and adoption placement to refuse to place children with same-sex couples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tricia Boucher U.S. rolls back protections for transgender prison inmates The Bureau of Prisons decided to roll back protections for transgender inmates ? housing them according to their biological sex rather than their identified gender. &#8216;Mama Dragons&#8217;: Mormon mom group provides support to LGBTQ kids ? and each other With more than 1,700 members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3669","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\/3669","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=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}