{"id":4926,"date":"2014-03-13T22:54:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2014-03-13T22:57:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:57:38","slug":"study-urges-u-s-military-to-reconsider-ban-on-transgender-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2014\/03\/study-urges-u-s-military-to-reconsider-ban-on-transgender-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Urges U.S. Military to Reconsider Ban on Transgender Personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study focusing on gender, sexuality and the military found &#8220;no compelling medical reason&#8221; to leave intact a ban on transgender people serving in the military.<\/p>\n<p>A report, released by the Palm Center at San Francisco State University, explains that &#8220;transsexualism&#8221; is a condition banned in military regulations but now recognized by the American Psychiatric Association&#8217;s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual under the name &#8220;gender dysphoria&#8221; and is considered a &#8220;condition that is amenable to treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arguments based on mental health are not convincing rationales for prohibiting transgender military service, and [the ban] is not consistent with modern medical understanding,&#8221; the report argues. &#8220;Scientists have abandoned psychopathological understandings of transgender identity, and no longer classify gender non-conformity as a mental illness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2014\/03\/13\/No-medical-reason-for-transgender-ban-in-military-panel-says\/4811394746865\/\">Via UPI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;4919&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"xl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cam4.com\/male?utm_campaign=male&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=button&amp;utm_content=blogpost\" target=\"_blank\">Visit Cam4 Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study focusing on gender, sexuality and the military found &#8220;no compelling medical reason&#8221; to leave intact a ban on transgender people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36821,12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news-humor","featured","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4928,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions\/4928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}