{"id":1131,"date":"2017-02-23T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/dnc-chair-statement-on-white-house-rollback-of-transgender-protections\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:19:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:19:21","slug":"dnc-chair-statement-on-white-house-rollback-of-transgender-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-white-house-rollback-of-transgender-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Chair Statement on White House Rollback of Transgender Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &ndash; DNC Interim Chair Donna Brazile released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It&#39;s clear that the most extreme elements of this administration are in total control. There is no group, no matter how vulnerable, that they won&#39;t target, and absolutely no Republican official who can stop them is lifting a finger to do so. Secretary Betsy DeVos and others in the Trump administration know transgender kids are at increased risk of bullying and suicide, and yet she and this entire administration signed off on this shameful action anyway. This isn&#39;t politics, it&#39;s disgusting violence that targets the most vulnerable members of our society.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &ndash; DNC Interim Chair Donna Brazile released the following statement: &#8220;It&#39;s clear that the most extreme elements of this administration are in total control. There is no group, no matter how vulnerable, that they won&#39;t target, and absolutely no Republican official who can stop them is lifting a finger to do so. Secretary Betsy <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Chair Statement on White House Rollback of Transgender Protections - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-white-house-rollback-of-transgender-protections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-02-23T16:44:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:19:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-white-house-rollback-of-transgender-protections\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-white-house-rollback-of-transgender-protections\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Chair Statement on White House Rollback of Transgender Protections - 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