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The TERF Empire Declares War Against Trans People

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Source Summary

Trans pioneer Dallas Denny published an article on TA about expressing her misgivings about the upcoming publication of a book promoting Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) hate. She just received a chilling response from a group of TERF academics declaring war on trans people. The anonymous author declares war on me and for that matter on all transpeople. He or she and his or her six compatriots claims that they will raise an army of graduate students who will oppress me and others like me and render us impotent and invisible– in the name of academic freedom. It’s a peculiarly-worded and most impolite declaration of war based upon an irrational philosophy of who I and others like me are. Happily, he or she is not the arbiter of who I am. I get to say who I am. – Trans pioneer, Dallas Denny Here’s are portions of the chilling letter

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Community significance

“The TERF Empire Declares War Against Trans People” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging transgender identity and history. 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, “The TERF Empire Declares War Against Trans People” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is education policy. It links that institutional frame to feminism and gender politics and transgender identity and history, 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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Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
100%
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
45%
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
9%

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Philosophical and ontological analysis
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Education policy
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How “Feminism and gender politics” 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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3 2009

2 2010

7 2011

9 2012

94 2013

44 2014

21 2015

21 2016

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7 2018

3 2019

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7 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 5 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently spans 2013–2014. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

7distinct source records documented

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0books or volumes documented

7references retained by the source publication

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6 2013

1 2014

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