{"id":3224,"date":"2007-03-01T10:42:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T17:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/01\/action-alert-tell-the-ny-post-to-quit-its-transphobic-%e2%80%9creporting%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T17:42:16","slug":"action-alert-tell-the-ny-post-to-quit-its-transphobic-%e2%80%9creporting%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3224","title":{"rendered":"ACTION ALERT: Tell the NY Post to quit its transphobic \u201creporting\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angrybrownbutch.com\/2007\/03\/01\/141\">AngryBrownButch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An important victory was recently won in the struggle for trans rights, specifically around health care. Judge Sheldon Rand of the Manhattan Family Court found, for the second time, that the City of New York is obligated to pay for the sexual reassignment surgery of Mariah Lopez, a young trans woman of color who was denied this important and necessary medical care while in the care of the NYC foster system. The City is constitutionally required to provide adequate medical coverage for all children in its care, and SRS is a medically approved procedure, one that is often necessary for trans people. In the decision, Judge Rand wrote: \u201cMariah L. should be treated in order that she may go on with her life and be in a body which blends with the gender with which she identifies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Judge Rand was far more understanding and respectful than most of the media coverage, which has ranged from iffy to downright disgusting&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angrybrownbutch.com\/2007\/03\/01\/141\">click through<\/a> to read the ugly details, including a cut-and-paste email that you can send to the <em>Post<\/em>. And make sure to read the first post in the comments, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AngryBrownButch: An important victory was recently won in the struggle for trans rights, specifically around health care. Judge Sheldon Rand of the Manhattan Family Court found, for the second time, that the City of New York is obligated to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3224\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transsexual-and-transgender-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}