{"id":175587,"date":"2023-07-14T07:29:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=175587"},"modified":"2023-07-14T07:29:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T11:29:51","slug":"what-took-them-so-friggin-long-russia-moves-towards-banning-sex-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=175587","title":{"rendered":"What took them so friggin&#8217; long?!?!?! Russia moves towards banning sex changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>READ HERE: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/579684-russia-sex-change-law\/\">The Russian State Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, has passed legislation that makes sex transitioning in Russia illegal, with a handful of medical exceptions. Lawmakers cited moral obligations to resist the transgender\u00a0<em>\u201cindustry\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and foreign influence as reasons for the amendments.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}