{"id":153731,"date":"2025-08-17T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153731\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:18:10","slug":"transgender-military-losing-retirement-benefits-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153731\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender military losing retirement benefits \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cUS Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service\u201d (Aug. 7): Wow! Let me get this straight (pun intended). Active military in good standing will be denied retirement benefits because they are transgender. If that isn\u2019t blatant discrimination I don\u2019t know what is. What\u2019s next? Denying retirement benefits to women, Black people and non-European Americans? What has happened to my country?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rose Van Oss, Bankers Hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cUS Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service\u201d (Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-153731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115045485950687574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}