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Targeted Families, Targeted Lives

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I really can’t believe all the ridiculously negative things I’ve been hearing about the 2nd grade student that is transitioning at school. Here are a few examples: Public schools have been involved in a sick propaganda campaign that encourages and collaborates with the advancement of mental illness in children. – Stop The ACLU.com It is a basic fact of biology, sex is immutable. If you are born a male, you will die a male. There is absolutely nothing any mortal can do about that. Yet for some strange reason, we seem to think that are sex is like a pair of socks, which can be changed on a whim. Putting a dress on a boy, having him the girl’s room and calling him a female name, can not and will not make this John Doe into Jane Doe. It has can’t be done and it has never been done. School

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Targeted Families, Targeted Lives” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to education and youth, while also engaging media, rhetoric, and discourse. 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 2008 at Transadvocate.com, “Targeted Families, Targeted Lives” provides dated evidence of how education and youth was being argued in relation to media, rhetoric, and discourse. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

“Targeted Families, Targeted Lives” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with education and youth. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for media, rhetoric, and discourse.

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
    Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    100%
  2. 2
    Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
    27%
  3. 3
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    23%
  4. 4
    Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    18%
  5. 5
    Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    7%

Editorial function

Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Education and youth to Media, rhetoric, and discourse: Separate but related
Media, rhetoric, and discourse
Education and youth to Transgender identity and history: Separate but related
Transgender identity and history
Education and youth to Culture, identity, and representation: Separate but related
Culture, identity, and representation
Education and youth to Healthcare and medicine: Related theme in the same family
Healthcare and medicine
Education and youthRank 1
Relationship key
  • Separate but related themes
  • Related theme in the same family
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This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

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Cristan Williams

319 publications · 3,580 inbound sources/citations

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Admin

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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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Related academic framing

1986: Transgenderism ≠ Transsexualism; GID = Umbrella Term

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

From The Language of Sex A to Z by Dr. Robert M. Goldenson and Kenneth N. Anderson: 1986: Transgenderism & Transsexualism Transgenderism: a gender identity disorder in which…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0229-E064
Historical context

“Crossgender”: Precursor to Transgender?

Supplies historical or archival context for the issue discussed here.

n further exploring how the evolution of the trans lexicon has brought us to this moment in linguistic history, I felt that it might be interesting to explore…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0276-45A1
Counterpoint

1992: Bigenderal Introduction and Rejection

Offers a critical, contrasting, or corrective interpretation of the shared issue.

Rebuttal to Prince, February 1992 Bigenderal Introduction: TERMINOLOGY FOR THE CROSSDRESSING COMMUNITY by Virginia Prince The matter of labels in our community has come up many times and…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0106-786B