ENDA And Barney Frank’s Trans Penis Panic
In a recent interview with Karen Ocamb, Barney Frank said: “I’m hoping to get a vote on it in committee . I’m doing a lot of work on it quietly, to get the issues involving transgender access to rooms where people have their clothes off. That’s a fact that you have to deal with, particularly for people who have not had an operation.” Frank has had a reputation for having a preoccupation with preoperative trans-women’s penises. Since writing “A Frank Bitch Slap“, I’ve feared about Frank’s public outbursts concerning the transgender penis. Miranda Stevens-Miller said of Barney Frank: A little while later, I found Barney without a group of people around him, so I once again engaged him in conversation. “So,” I said, “does your support of transgender inclusion in the VAWA mean that you might be changing your mind about inclusion of gender-variant people in ENDA?” An innocent enough
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“ENDA And Barney Frank’s Trans Penis Panic” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging labor, economics, and institutions. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
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As a publication record from 2010 at Transadvocate.com, “ENDA And Barney Frank’s Trans Penis Panic” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to labor, economics, and institutions. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
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To Barney Frank, RE: ENDA « Piece Apart
[...] been well-documented that, like the Christian right, he’s obsessed with trans women using women’s bathrooms, “penises in showers,” and claims that “If you insist on the right for [...]
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