{"id":53158,"date":"2023-03-06T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/06\/worlds-first-openly-transgender-mp-georgina-beyer-dies-in-new-zealand-aged-65"},"modified":"2023-03-06T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:16:14","slug":"worlds-first-openly-transgender-mp-georgina-beyer-dies-in-new-zealand-aged-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53158","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first openly transgender MP, Georgina Beyer, dies in New Zealand aged 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former actor, drag performer, sex worker and radio host pulled off a surprise victory as a Labour MP and later played a pivotal role in decriminalising prostitution<\/p>\n<p>Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has led tributes to Georgina Beyer, the world\u2019s first openly transgender MP, who has died.<\/p>\n<p>Friends announced \u201cwith the heaviest of hearts\u201d on Facebook on Monday that the 65-year-old had died at a Wellington hospice.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/06\/worlds-first-openly-transgender-mp-georgina-beyer-dies-in-new-zealand-aged-65\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former actor, drag performer, sex worker and radio host pulled off a surprise victory as a Labour MP and later played a pivotal role in decriminalising prostitutionFormer New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has led tributes to Georgina Beyer, th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,56,933,572,966,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-transgender","category-wellington","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53159,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53158\/revisions\/53159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}