{"id":661,"date":"2011-11-01T19:42:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T01:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtforce\/?p=661"},"modified":"2012-02-02T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T17:02:15","slug":"a-couple-of-trans-items-of-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of Trans* Items of Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of handy tidbits of information that task force members have come across recently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Right on the heels of the NCAA&#8217;s creation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3l8cb26\">Inclusion of Transgender Student-Athletes Handbook<\/a>, ESPN is airing a documentary on Renee Richards, the first transgender tennis player. The film, called <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espn\/espnfilms\/story\/_\/id\/6961183\/renee\">Renee<\/a>, provides the historical context, as well as how Renee is doing today, over thirty years later. Check your local listings for show times.<\/li>\n<li>The Department of State has recently changed the policy with regards to the <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.state.gov\/passport\/get\/first\/first_5100.html\">issuance of passports for individuals undergoing gender reassignment surgery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Girl Scouts of America is an inclusive organization, and you should support them. They defended the right of a seven year-old trans-identified child to join a club. Read more about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/transgriot.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/girl-scout-troop-does-right-thing-for.html\">TransGriot<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to Leah, Dan, and Krissa for the links!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of handy tidbits of information that task force members have come across recently: Right on the heels of the NCAA&#8217;s creation of the Inclusion of Transgender Student-Athletes Handbook, ESPN is airing a documentary on Renee Richards, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-around-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}