{"id":75727,"date":"2016-05-11T07:46:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=75727"},"modified":"2016-05-11T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:46:10","slug":"philippines-elects-first-transgender-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/11\/philippines-elects-first-transgender-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines elects first transgender politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75728\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Geraldine-Roman-first-transgender-politician-elected-in-the-Philippines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75728\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Geraldine-Roman-first-transgender-politician-elected-in-the-Philippines.jpg\" alt=\"The Commission on Elections on Wednesday proclaimed Geraldine Roman (in photo) winner of Monday's election in the first district of northern Bataan province. (Facebook photo)\" width=\"504\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Geraldine-Roman-first-transgender-politician-elected-in-the-Philippines.jpg 504w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Geraldine-Roman-first-transgender-politician-elected-in-the-Philippines-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Commission on Elections on Wednesday proclaimed Geraldine Roman (in photo) winner of Monday&#8217;s election in the first district of northern Bataan province. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/geraldine.roman.90\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014The first transgender politician elected in the Philippines says she hopes her win in a congressional race shows that people like her can contribute to nation-building in a country where LGBT people are still sometimes publicly ridiculed.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission on Elections on Wednesday proclaimed Geraldine Roman winner of Monday&#8217;s election in the first district of northern Bataan province.<\/p>\n<p>Roman, who takes over a congressional seat previously occupied by her mother, says she is happy to have survived the humiliation and attacks on her gender by political opponents during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The former editor of a Spanish news agency says she hopes her story will inspire the LGBT community and show the need for compassion in society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014The first transgender politician elected in the Philippines says she hopes her win in a congressional race shows that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[1315,10674,4293,5790,10675,343,9401,2868,10676],"class_list":["post-75727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-bataan","tag-geraldine-roman","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-orani","tag-philippines","tag-politics","tag-transgender","tag-transgender-politician","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}