{"id":7331,"date":"2016-05-11T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T22:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keblog.demoapp.xyz\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2022-10-19T03:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:57:57","slug":"philippines-say-hello-to-your-first-transgender-congresswoman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/philippines-say-hello-to-your-first-transgender-congresswoman-2","title":{"rendered":"Philippines, Say Hello to Your First Transgender Congresswoman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Geraldine Roman. She <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-36253666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just got elected as a congresswoman<\/a><\/strong> in Bataan and will be taking a seat in the Philippine House of Representatives following the recent 2016 elections. She is transgender.<\/p>\n<p>Previously working as a news editor for a Spanish agency, Roman was a Filipina living in Spain until 2012 when she came home to take care of her sick father. She&#8217;s also got quite the political pedigree considering she will be successor to none other than her mother.<\/p>\n<p>In a predominantly Catholic country like ours, it speaks volumes to <strong><a href=\"\/blog\/inspiring-members-of-the-filipino-lgbt-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>vote<\/em> someone from the LGBT community <em>into<\/em><\/a><\/strong> a position in government. Consistently <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheninmanila.com\/meet-geraldine-roman-the-first-transgender-woman-to-run-for-public-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in her campaign<\/a><\/strong> and for the next three years, she will continue to advocate LGBT rights. &#8220;That somebody of my condition is going to enter congress for the first time is a statement that even transgender people can serve our country and should not be discriminated against,&#8221; said Roman during her campaign. With a leap like this, who knows what else could be in store for the future of work and employment?<\/p>\n<h3>Good luck on your term, Geraldine and all the elected officials!<\/h3>\n<h3><em><a href=\"http:\/\/kalibrr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sign up on Kalibrr<\/strong><\/a> today and find the right job for you. You can also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/i\/77238488FF110D6D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe<\/a><\/strong> to our weekly newsletter and get Kalibrr Career Advice straight from your inbox!<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Geraldine Roman. She just got elected as a congresswoman in Bataan and will be taking a seat in the Philippine House of Representatives following the recent 2016 elections. She is transgender. Previously working as a news editor for a Spanish agency, Roman was a Filipina living in Spain until 2012 when she came home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}