{"id":90941,"date":"2017-02-23T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90941"},"modified":"2017-02-23T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T02:56:30","slug":"jackie-evancho-wants-to-meet-trump-on-transgender-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/23\/jackie-evancho-wants-to-meet-trump-on-transgender-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Evancho wants to meet Trump on transgender rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90942\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90942\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13600119_10154137356401131_7179783766210347182_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90942\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13600119_10154137356401131_7179783766210347182_n.jpg\" alt=\"More than a month after performing at President Donald Trump's inauguration, singer Jackie Evancho says she and her transgender sister want to meet with him about transgender rights. (Photo: Jackie Evancho\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13600119_10154137356401131_7179783766210347182_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13600119_10154137356401131_7179783766210347182_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13600119_10154137356401131_7179783766210347182_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13600119_10154137356401131_7179783766210347182_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than a month after performing at President Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration, singer Jackie Evancho says she and her transgender sister want to meet with him about transgender rights. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jackieevancho\/photos\/a.476875196130.288921.164162761130\/10154137356401131\/?type=3&amp;theater\"> Jackie Evancho\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014More than a month after performing at President Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration, singer Jackie Evancho says she and her transgender sister want to meet with him about transgender rights.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old made the request in a tweet Wednesday night . Evancho appeared alongside her sister, Juliet, on ABC&#8217;s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d on Thursday . Juliet Evancho says they hope to \u201cenlighten\u201d the president.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet followed the Trump administration&#8217;s move Wednesday to end federal protection for transgender students that allowed them to use public school bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identities.<\/p>\n<p>The former \u201cAmerica&#8217;s Got Talent\u201d contestant sang the national anthem at Trump&#8217;s Jan. 20 inaugural and tells &#8216;GMA&#8217; that she would do so again. She says she sang not because of politics, but for \u201cthe honour and privilege\u201d of performing for her country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014More than a month after performing at President Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration, singer Jackie Evancho says she and her transgender sister &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9869,14070],"class_list":["post-90941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-donald-trump","tag-jackie-evancho","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90941","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=90941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}