{"id":8676,"date":"2016-10-17T18:58:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2016-10-17T18:58:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:58:40","slug":"transgender-cong-geraldine-roman-named-inspiring-woman-of-2016-by-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/10\/17\/transgender-cong-geraldine-roman-named-inspiring-woman-of-2016-by-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Cong. Geraldine Roman named Inspiring Woman of 2016 by TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8677\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/Geraldine-Roman.jpg\" alt=\"geraldine-roman\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>I<\/em><em>mage grabbed from vance.nl<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Bataan First District Representative Geraldine Roman was cited at <em>Motto<\/em>, <em>TIME <\/em>Magazine\u2019s online subsidiary, last Tuesday (October 11) in celebration of International Day of the Girl. The article was titled, \u201cThese 13 Women Inspired Us in 2016\u201d with subtitle \u201cFrom Beyonce to Geraldine Roman, the Philippines\u2019 first transgender congresswoman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Roman was named by <em>TIME<\/em> as one of the most inspiring women of 2016 among 13 leaders including Hillary Clinton, Beyonce and Solange Knowles, Michelle Carter to name a few.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Elected as the first transgender congresswoman in the country, <em>TIME<\/em> also recognized her efforts to push for civil unions and an anti-discrimination bill on behalf of the LGBT community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In a statement, Roman\u2019s office said she \u201cis humbled and honored to be part of a list citing inspiring women all over the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/preen.inquirer.net\/33543\/transgender-cong-geraldine-roman-named-inspiring-woman-of-2016-by-time\" target=\"_blank\">Preen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2016\/10\/16\/1634076\/time-honors-transgender-lawmaker-inspiring-story\" target=\"_blank\">Philippine Star<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bataan First District Representative Geraldine Roman was cited at Motto, TIME Magazine\u2019s online subsidiary, last Tuesday (October 11) in celebration of International Day of the Girl. The article was titled, \u201cThese 13 Women Inspired Us in 2016\u201d with subtitle \u201cFrom Beyonce to Geraldine Roman, the Philippines\u2019 first transgender congresswoman.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[365,367,366],"class_list":["post-8676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-geraldine-roman","tag-lgbt","tag-time"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/Geraldine-Roman-e1476701902688.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8680,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions\/8680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}