{"id":3697,"date":"2018-06-08T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2018-06-05T07:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T11:49:20","slug":"lgbtqia-world-news-roundup-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3697","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA World News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-3698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/n2-1-768x304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/n2-1-768x304.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/n2-1-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/n2-1-450x178.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/n2-1-850x336.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/n2-1-1000x396.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/n2-1.jpg 1018w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Tricia Boucher<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-44237691?intlink_from_url=https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/topics\/cp7r8vgln2wt\/lgbt&amp;link_location=live-reporting-story\">Chile transgender: &#8216;Growing up here is torture&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Legally changing your name to the opposite gender in Chile can take years, and for children it can be extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hongkong-britain-lgbt\/hong-kongs-top-court-hears-landmark-appeal-on-spousal-visa-for-british-lesbian-idUSKCN1J00S6\">Hong Kong&#8217;s top court hears landmark appeal on spousal visa for British lesbian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong legally defines marriage as monogamous and heterosexual, but the top court is hearing the case of a British woman who sued the director of immigration for refusing to give her a spousal visa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jun\/03\/leonne-zeegers-dutch-court-victory-hermaphrodites-third-gender\">Meet Leonne Zeegers, the first gender-neutral Dutch citizen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leonne Zeegers was born intersex and identifies as hermaphroditic.? Now she (her preferred pronoun) is the first Dutch citizen to be legally identified as neither male nor female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tricia Boucher Chile transgender: &#8216;Growing up here is torture&#8217; Legally changing your name to the opposite gender in Chile can take years, and for children it can be extremely difficult. Hong Kong&#8217;s top court hears landmark appeal on spousal visa for British lesbian Hong Kong legally defines marriage as monogamous and heterosexual, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3697","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\/3697","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=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}