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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

By Marti Abernathey Transadvocate.com

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Source Summary

Bird Of Paradox their ‘crisis of faith’ with feminism, This Ain’t Livin posted about discussing how your gender gender effects you, and Planet Transgender posted about Columbus Ohio’d City Council passing a transgender anti-discrimination law.

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Wednesday, December 17th, 2008” may matter to community readers because it records a specific intervention in debates about transgender identity and history, with particular attention to law and civil rights. The permanent record makes that intervention easier to locate and compare with other Collective coverage.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2008 at Transadvocate.com, “Wednesday, December 17th, 2008” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to law and civil rights. 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. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and law and civil rights, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

Content analysis

Ranked themes and framings

Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.

Themes

  1. 1
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    100%
  2. 2
    Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    83%
  3. 3
    Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    50%
  4. 4
    Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    33%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%

Policy framing

  1. 1100%

Editorial function

Policy implications

Source topics

Blog Watchblogsfeminismgenderohio
Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Transgender identity and history to Law and civil rights: Overlapping theme
Law and civil rights
 Transgender identity and history to Feminism and gender politics: Separate but related
Feminism and gender politics
 Transgender identity and history to Religion and morality: Separate but related
Religion and morality
Transgender identity and historyRank 1
Relationship key
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  • Separate but related themes
The diagram distinguishes hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes inferred within this article. It does not assert that all themes are mutually exclusive.

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This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

Relative presence by year

Peak year indexed to 100

Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com880
  2. Cristan’s Research84
  3. The TERFs55

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Community and organizing531
  2. Law and civil rights468
  3. Culture, identity, and representation320
  4. Education and youth308
  5. Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
  6. Healthcare and medicine248
  7. Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
  8. History, archives, and memory216
  9. Public policy and governance206
  10. Feminism and gender politics198

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Interpretive analysis442
  2. Historical analysis290
  3. Clinical and medical analysis210
  4. Psychological analysis168
  5. Qualitative and interview research120
  6. Media and discourse analysis109
  7. Critical theory90
  8. Empirical and quantitative research78

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Public accommodations and facilities177
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
  3. Criminal justice and public safety131
  4. Elections and democratic governance100
  5. Research ethics and data governance78
  6. Labor and employment policy52
  7. Administrative classification and identity documents39
  8. Housing and social services38

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Documented circulation and reception

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Related authors in the Collective corpus

Cristan Williams

319 publications · 3,580 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

Admin

98 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

Cristan Williams

143 publications · 714 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 89 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

TransAdvocate Staff

11 publications · 2 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.

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