{"id":254,"date":"2014-03-02T01:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T01:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/?p=254"},"modified":"2014-03-02T01:53:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T01:53:18","slug":"ending-professional-bigotry-against-transgender-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/blog\/ending-professional-bigotry-against-transgender-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending \u201cProfessional\u201d Bigotry Against Transgender People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"605\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h-hAc4uv9HU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"watch-uploader-info\">\n<strong>Professional organizations like the American Psychiatric Association (APA) have designated Transgender people \u201csick.\u201d <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Until 1973, the same \u201csick\u201d designation was applied to gays \u2013 but protest forced a change.  GLN\u2019s Dr. Ronnie Drantz and Brent Holman-Gomez discuss the very political, and unscientific process by which Transgender people are currently designated as \u201csick\u201d by the APA, and how that leads to the discriminatory treatment that Transgender people face.  <\/p>\n<p><em>Originally broadcast August 14, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->\n<!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional organizations like the American Psychiatric Association (APA) have designated Transgender people \u201csick.\u201d Until 1973, the same \u201csick\u201d designation was applied to gays \u2013 but protest forced a change. GLN\u2019s Dr. Ronnie Drantz and Brent Holman-Gomez discuss the very political, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/blog\/ending-professional-bigotry-against-transgender-people\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ending \u201cProfessional\u201d Bigotry Against Transgender People<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,66],"tags":[133,128,111,134,104,109,108,71],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gln-can-tv-call-in-show","category-transgender-rights","tag-american-psychiatric-association","tag-brent-holman-gomez","tag-can-tv","tag-dr-ronnie-drantz","tag-gay-liberation-network","tag-intersex","tag-trans","tag-transgender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bCot-46","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.tv\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}