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[UPDATED] Cotton Ceiling: Uncovering the trans conspiracy to rape lesbians

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The mere mention of the “cotton ceiling” should send rapey shivers up your spine. If you’ve not heard of it here’s the lowdown from feminists: Transgender cotton ceiling rapists hold male-only (Planned Parenthood-sponsored) seminars, write books, host lecture tours, and endlessly spam lesbian websites and blogs with rape and murder threats over lack of male “inclusion” in lesbian social gatherings, lesbian organizing, lesbian events, lesbian music festivals, and – most importantly- lesbian bedrooms. Planned Parenthood Toronto is helping to sponsor a March 31 conference in Toronto that includes a workshop inviting participants to discuss and strategize ways they might be able to “overcome” women’s objections to these participants’ sexual advances. We believe that no means no, that a woman’s right to say “no” to sex at any time is sacrosanct and that no explanations should ever be requested because none is ever necessary. The name of the workshop proposed is

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Community significance

“[UPDATED] Cotton Ceiling: Uncovering the trans conspiracy to rape lesbians” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging feminism and gender politics. 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 2013 at Transadvocate.com, “[UPDATED] Cotton Ceiling: Uncovering the trans conspiracy to rape lesbians” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to feminism and gender politics. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and feminism and gender politics, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

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22 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 17 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently spans 2013–2021. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

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Cristan Williams · collective-demo.transhouston.com · March 12, 2021

TERFs asserted that the Cotton Ceiling was a conspiracy on the part of trans people to sexually assault cis people, cis Lesbains in particular. Read an insightful interview with Cathy Brennan concerning her Conspiracy work, its assimilation into the far-right, and her self-identity as a…

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Intro to the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · August 11, 2014

TERFs have continued to employ their bullying tactics, irrespective of the cost to trans people and their publicly obdurate behavior is always carried out in the name of feminism. Power, in a Foucaultian sense, isn’t just about the power of law and institutions; power is…

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Glossary

Cristan Williams · collective-demo.transhouston.com · March 15, 2014

An internal discussion within the trans community, originally known as the Cotton Ceiling, concerned itself with the way physical cisnormative beauty standards impact notions of desirability, how these biases relate to the fetishization of trans people, how it impacts the perception of trans people in queer spaces, and how these…