After The Personal Wars: What’s Next In The Fight For Transequality?
Given the current political climate it looks as if the Employment Non-discrimination Act (ENDA) is dead for at least the next couple of years. What should we do? We need to look at the example of Haverford. From Philadelphia Gay News: “Haverford is on its way to becoming the 19th jurisdiction in the state to ban LGBT discrimination, as the township commission voted 5-3, with one abstention, at its Jan. 10 meeting to adopt a measure that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing and public accommodations. The commission must approve the bill on a second reading, which is expected to take place at next month’s commissioners’ meeting, before it can become law.” and Hartford, Connecticut: “Last night the Hartford Court of Common voted unanimously in favor of two ordinances which protect gender identity or expression from discrimination. The Council’s action makes Hartford the first
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“After The Personal Wars: What’s Next In The Fight For Transequality?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “After The Personal Wars: What’s Next In The Fight For Transequality?” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community56%
- 3Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life41%
- 4Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community35%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community5%
- 6Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication5%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 250%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history468
- Community and organizing300
- Public policy and governance165
- Education and youth151
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization146
- Culture, identity, and representation145
- Labor, economics, and institutions136
- Family and relationships130
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse119
- History, archives, and memory117
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