My response to Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole’s Remarks
On Thursday, March 27, 2014, the “Justice Department” launched a training program to supposedly improve relations with the trans community. Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole made remarks here on the issue and ill be copying some of them over to reply to them. His comments will be italicized and in quotations. “While it is difficult to find comprehensive data, a survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality found that discrimination against transgender individuals is pervasive: 63 percent of respondents reported they had experienced a serious act of discrimination that had a major impact on their quality of life and their ability to sustain themselves financially or emotionally. Transgender people are reportedly four times more likely to live in extreme poverty than the general population. Too often, transgender people are the target of violent crime, including murder: 61 percent reported they were the victim of physical assault. Those who
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“My response to Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole’s Remarks” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging law and civil rights. 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 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “My response to Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole’s Remarks” 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 criminal justice and public safety and 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.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life63%
- 3Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict35%
- 4Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community28%
- 5Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication13%
- 6Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict8%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 225%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
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Relative presence by year
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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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Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
Mari
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
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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