{"id":506216,"date":"2013-05-16T14:26:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T14:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/ed-whelan\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:53","slug":"ed-whelan","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/ed-whelan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Whelan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/435172\/transgender-bathrooms-title-ix-justice-departments-transgender-activism\">Referred<\/a> to transgender acceptance as \u201cinsanity\u201d and \u201cwhat everyone used to recognize as lunacy. 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