{"id":18078,"date":"2015-04-24T12:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/op-ed-we-must-stop-the-legislative-war-on-transgender-people\/"},"modified":"2015-04-24T12:10:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:10:22","slug":"op-ed-we-must-stop-the-legislative-war-on-transgender-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/op-ed-we-must-stop-the-legislative-war-on-transgender-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: We Must Stop the Legislative War on Transgender People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Op-Ed: We Must Stop the Legislative War on Transgender People<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/GLOBAL_gavel_blog.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>                        In an op-ed published this morning in The Advocate, HRC President Chad Griffin and Founding Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality Mara Keisling spoke out against the recent increase in anti-transgender legislation.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/op-ed-we-must-stop-the-legislative-war-on-transgender-people?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/op-ed-we-must-stop-the-legislative-war-on-transgender-people?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op-Ed: We Must Stop the Legislative War on Transgender People In an op-ed published this morning in The Advocate, HRC President Chad Griffin and Founding Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality Mara Keisling spoke out against the recent increase in anti-transgender legislation. <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/op-ed-we-must-stop-the-legislative-war-on-transgender-people?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/op-ed-we-must-stop-the-legislative-war-on-transgender-people?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Op-Ed: We Must Stop the Legislative War on Transgender People - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/op-ed-we-must-stop-the-legislative-war-on-transgender-people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Op-Ed: We Must Stop the Legislative War on Transgender People - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Op-Ed: We Must Stop the Legislative War on Transgender People In an op-ed published this morning in The Advocate, HRC President Chad Griffin and Founding Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality Mara Keisling spoke out against the recent increase in anti-transgender legislation. 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