{"id":33787,"date":"2018-03-24T13:41:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T12:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/24\/white-house-declares-ban-on-transgender-people-serving-in-military\/"},"modified":"2018-03-24T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T12:41:34","slug":"white-house-declares-ban-on-transgender-people-serving-in-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=33787","title":{"rendered":"White House declares ban on transgender people serving in military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on Donald Trump\u2019s controversial pledge, official memo disqualifies trans individuals \u2018except under limited circumstances\u2019 The White House has announced orders to formally ban transgender people from serving in the military, following up on Donald Trump\u2019s controversial policy pledge that sparked widespread backlash last year from civil rights groups and US defense chiefs. Despite opposition from top military officials and previous rulings against the ban, which LGBT rights groups have challenged in court, a memo from the secretary of defense released late Friday night said trans people are \u201cdisqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/mar\/23\/donald-trump-transgender-military-ban-white-house-memo\" target=\"_blank\">White House declares ban on transgender people serving in military<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on Donald Trump\u2019s controversial pledge, official memo disqualifies trans individuals \u2018except under limited circumstances\u2019 The White House has announced orders to formally ban transgender people from serving in the military, following up on Donald Trump\u2019s controversial policy pledge that sparked widespread backlash last year from civil rights groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}