{"id":19372,"date":"2026-02-26T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/whitmer-defends-trans-rights-after-trump-sotu-no-matter-who-comes-after-you-ill-stand-in-the-way\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:22:27","slug":"whitmer-defends-trans-rights-after-trump-sotu-no-matter-who-comes-after-you-ill-stand-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/whitmer-defends-trans-rights-after-trump-sotu-no-matter-who-comes-after-you-ill-stand-in-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitmer defends trans rights after Trump SOTU: \u2018No matter who comes after you, I&#8217;ll stand in the way\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Wednesday defended transgender rights in her State of the State address, a day after President Trump criticized gender transition in his State of the Union address. &ldquo;In Michigan, everyone deserves to be who they are and love who they love&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/lgbtq\/5755981-whitmer-transgender-rights-state-of-the-state\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Wednesday defended transgender rights in her State of the State address, a day after President Trump criticized gender transition in his State of the Union address. &ldquo;In Michigan, everyone deserves to be who they are and love who they love&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}