{"id":28782,"date":"2016-06-30T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=28782"},"modified":"2016-06-30T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:00:49","slug":"pentagon-lifts-ban-on-transgender-servicemembers-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=28782","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon lifts ban on transgender servicemembers &#8211; Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href='https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/349053-transgender-military-ban-lifted\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS'>https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/349053-transgender-military-ban-lifted\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Preview\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.06\/thumbnail\/57755da2c36188ff248b457c.jpg\" \/> US military will no longer discriminate against transgender troops, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Thursday. Lifting the ban will involve changing numerous procedures and rules, especially regarding providing medical care. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/349053-transgender-military-ban-lifted\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">Read Full Article at RT.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <a href='https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/349053-transgender-military-ban-lifted\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS'>https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/349053-transgender-military-ban-lifted\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Preview\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.06\/thumbnail\/57755da2c36188ff248b457c.jpg\" \/> US military will no longer discriminate against transgender troops, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Thursday. Lifting the ban will involve changing numerous procedures and rules, especially regarding providing medical care. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/349053-transgender-military-ban-lifted\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">Read Full Article at RT.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}