{"id":35912,"date":"2016-02-18T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=35912"},"modified":"2016-02-17T20:46:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:46:37","slug":"35912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=35912","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota Becomes First State To Pass Anti-Transgender Student Restroom Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=35913\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35913\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anti-transgender-bill-copy-560x310.jpg\" alt=\"anti transgender bill copy\" width=\"560\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anti-transgender-bill-copy-560x310.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anti-transgender-bill-copy.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">HB 1008 seeks to ban transgender students from using school restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity. The measure was passed by the state senate Tuesday after being passed by the state house last week.<\/p>\n<p>By a 15\u201320 vote, the South Dakota state senate passed a bill on Tuesday to ban transgender students from using school restrooms that correspond with their gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>After passing the state house earlier this month, <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.sd.gov\/Legislative_Session\/Bills\/Bill.aspx?File=HB1008H.htm&amp;Session=2016&amp;Bill=1008\">House Bill 1008<\/a> is expected to head to Gov. Dennis Daugaard in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Provided that he signs it, South Dakota would be the first state in the country to pass such a law \u2014 likely teeing up a clash with the federal government, which has taken the position that such policies constitute illegal discrimination. (Full Story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/dominicholden\/south-dakota-becomes-first-state-to-pass-anti-transgender-st#.qu0Y5gojn\">Buzzfeed<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HB 1008 seeks to ban transgender students from using school restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity. The measure was passed by the state senate Tuesday after being passed by the state house last week.<br \/>\nBy a 15\u201320 vote, the South Dakota state senate passed a bill on Tuesday to ban transgender students [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[5805,5806,5807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35915,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35912\/revisions\/35915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}