Wyoming (IN)Equality
What the heck is up with Wyoming Equality? From their front page: An equality group is promoting The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival? For those that don’t know, the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival is a “womyn born womyn” event that specifically excludes transwomen. In recent years they’ve softened their “no transwomen” policy from “DO NOT ENTER,” to “WE TOLD YOU NOT TO ENTER, BUT YOU CAN BUY A TICKET.” If you don’t believe the politics behind Michfest is transphobic, just take a look at one of the scheduled events, a screening of ““The Gendercator” Susan Stryker described the film this way: “The ideas in the film echo the rhetoric of Janice Raymond’s Transsexual Empire (1979), which goes so far as to claim that Nazis invented transsexual surgery, that transsexuals are agents of a patriarchal conspiracy to replace biologically female women, to accuse all transsexuals of being rapists (because they represent an
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Wyoming (IN)Equality” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging public policy and governance. 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 2007 at Transadvocate.com, “Wyoming (IN)Equality” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to public policy and governance. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
“Wyoming (IN)Equality” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for public policy and governance.
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
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life50%
- 3Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication50%
- 4Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life33%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
- Separate but related themes
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 6 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
- Community and organizing531
- Law and civil rights468
- Culture, identity, and representation320
- Education and youth308
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
- Healthcare and medicine248
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
- History, archives, and memory216
- Public policy and governance206
- Feminism and gender politics198
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities177
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
- Criminal justice and public safety131
- Elections and democratic governance100
- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
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Documented circulation and reception
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Evidence by channel
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Autumn Sandeen
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Gwen Smith
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TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
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