{"id":877,"date":"2014-05-06T20:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T01:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=877"},"modified":"2014-05-20T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T15:40:06","slug":"department-of-education-protects-trans-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/877","title":{"rendered":"Department of Education Protects Trans Students Under Title IX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a clarification issued last week, the Department of Education said that trans students are protected under Title\u00a0IX. The statement was released by the Office of Civil Rights and said in part &#8220;Title IX&#8217;s sex discrimination prohibition extends to claims of discrimination based on gender identity or failure to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity and OCR accepts such complaints for investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many trans students still face hostility in schools across the country, but this recognition is a step towards progress. <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/docs\/qa-201404-title-ix.pdf\">To read the full text of the Department of Education clarification, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a clarification issued last week, the Department of Education said that trans students are protected under Title\u00a0IX. The statement was released by the Office of Civil Rights and said in part &#8220;Title IX&#8217;s sex discrimination prohibition extends to claims of discrimination based on gender identity or failure to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","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\/877","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}