{"id":3899,"date":"2018-11-02T09:49:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T13:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2018-11-12T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T21:37:11","slug":"lgbtqia-us-news-roundup-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/3899","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA+ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/merlin_118592405_c8ae76c8-1a46-4ef3-9237-efe1e988e0a3-jumbo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/merlin_118592405_c8ae76c8-1a46-4ef3-9237-efe1e988e0a3-jumbo-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/merlin_118592405_c8ae76c8-1a46-4ef3-9237-efe1e988e0a3-jumbo-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/merlin_118592405_c8ae76c8-1a46-4ef3-9237-efe1e988e0a3-jumbo.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/10\/20\/659122600\/matthew-shepard-laid-to-rest-20-years-after-his-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;You Are Safe Now&#8217;: Matthew Shepard Laid To Rest At National Cathedral<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Matthew Shepard&#8217;s ashes were buried on October 26, 2018 at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.-20 years after his death.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/21\/us\/politics\/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html?module=Uisil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">?Transgender? Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration<\/a><\/div>\n<div>The Department of Health and Human Services is leading an effort to provide a legal definition of gender that is based on a person&#8217;s biological sex at birth and cannot be changed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5431836\/dna-transgender-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Idea of a &#8216;DNA Test&#8217; for Transgender People Is Part of a Long, Dark History<\/a><\/div>\n<div>The recent proposal from the Department of Health and Human Services regarding gender allows for only one exception, if the male or female label can be &#8220;rebutted by reliable genetic evidence.&#8221; This kind of test does not exist, and this is not the first time in history that science has been used to justify biased beliefs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;You Are Safe Now&#8217;: Matthew Shepard Laid To Rest At National Cathedral Matthew Shepard&#8217;s ashes were buried on October 26, 2018 at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.-20 years after his death. ?Transgender? Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration The Department of Health and Human Services is leading an effort to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":3901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3899","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\/3899","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\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}