{"id":734,"date":"2011-12-09T23:40:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtforce\/?p=734"},"modified":"2011-12-09T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T05:40:11","slug":"news-items-for-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"News Items for the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of handy tidbits of information that task force members have come across recently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It seems like the major sports leagues are getting in on all of the non-discrimination fun. The National Basketball Association <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/7v3mkfe\">added sexual orientation to their collective bargaining agreement<\/a><\/strong>, following in the footsteps of the Major League Baseball. Go team!<\/li>\n<li>The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released a committee opinion this month on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/cxfaudx\">health care of transgender individuals<\/a><\/strong>. The Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women stated that the ACOG &#8220;opposes discrimination on the basis of gender identity and urges public and private health insurance plans to cover the treatment of gender identity disorder.&#8221; Nice work, Committee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to Patrick and Cindy 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: It seems like the major sports leagues are getting in on all of the non-discrimination fun. The National Basketball Association added sexual orientation to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=734\">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":[1104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-wrap-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}