{"id":8791,"date":"2015-04-30T07:47:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T11:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8791"},"modified":"2015-04-30T07:49:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T11:49:28","slug":"why-not-vote-for-jowelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8791","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Vote for Jowelle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Don\u2019t Vote for Jowelle<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/inacC3108143988.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs. Jowelle De Souza, recipient of the Humming Bird Medal, Bronze\" border=\"0\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\"><br \/>\n<small>Mrs. Jowelle De Souza, recipient of the Humming Bird Medal, Bronze<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>By Akilah Holder<br \/>\nApril 30, 2015 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,210430.html\">newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Religious leaders are objecting to transsexual Jowelle de Souza\u2019s bid to be elected to public office, saying her policies would seek to advocate the lifestyles of non-heterosexuals, which they see as immoral.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDe Souza, a hairstylist and animal rights activist, plans to run as an independent candidate for San Fernando West in the general election, and launched her campaign in March and last held a cottage meeting in the southern city on April 16.<\/p>\n<p>She is the first person in Trinidad and Tobago to have undergone a sex change, doing so at age 19 when she went from being a man to being a woman.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, her candidacy is not welcomed by several leaders of Christian and Hindu faiths.<\/p>\n<p>While religious leaders affirm that De Souza, who received a Hummingbird National Award for community service at last year\u2019s Independence Day celebrations, has the right to exercise the rights and privileges accorded her as a citizen, they do not believe someone who leads a gay or transsexual lifestyle should be in public office.<\/p>\n<p><I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,210430.html\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t Vote for Jowelle Mrs. Jowelle De Souza, recipient of the Humming Bird Medal, Bronze By Akilah Holder April 30, 2015 &#8211; newsday.co.tt Religious leaders are objecting to transsexual Jowelle de Souza\u2019s bid to be elected to public office, saying her policies would seek to advocate the lifestyles of non-heterosexuals, which they see as immoral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,178,7,12,323],"tags":[991,1015,992],"class_list":["post-8791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-media","category-politics","category-religion","category-sex-general-tt","tag-jowelle-de-souza","tag-politics","tag-transsexual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8794,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions\/8794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}