{"id":51932,"date":"2024-05-16T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/education-secretary-gillian-keegan-pressed-on-transgender-views\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T11:40:18","slug":"education-secretary-gillian-keegan-pressed-on-transgender-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/education-secretary-gillian-keegan-pressed-on-transgender-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Secretary Gillian Keegan pressed on transgender views"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/097b\/live\/cb08cb60-1374-11ef-b9d8-4f52aebe147d.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Education Secretary Gillian Keegan pressed on transgender views\" title=\"Education Secretary Gillian Keegan pressed on transgender views\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has been pressed on whether she has changed her position on the status of transgender people since 2020, when she stated &#8220;trans women are women&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Speaking to BBC Radio 4, she said there was a difference between trans people who had undergone gender reassignment surgery and those who had not.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">She said that in 2020, she &#8220;had in her head at the time&#8221; someone who had fully physically transitioned.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;Someone that was a man, that has transitioned, that has fully transitioned, is know as a women&#8221;, she added.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c99z909wnvqo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has been pressed on whether she has changed her position on the status of transgender people since 2020, when she stated &#8220;trans women are women&#8221;. Speaking to BBC Radio 4, she said there was a difference between trans people who had undergone gender reassignment surgery and those who had not. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/097b\/live\/cb08cb60-1374-11ef-b9d8-4f52aebe147d.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[1652,51784,51785,51786,34,1792,4891],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51934,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51932\/revisions\/51934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}