The TERF Appropriation of the Trans Day of Remembrance
A TERF hate-tracking site recently raised a warning that Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) leaders are attempting to appropriate the Trans Day of Remembrance: Cathy Brennan, contributor to the Radfem2013 conference, has sunk to yet a new low. She is now trying to exploit the death of our sisters (Transgender Day of Remembrance – TDOR) to further her justification of transphobia. She wants us all to believe that it isn’t transphobia that kills us, it is male violence. While it is true that the majority of murderers are male, transphobia is the cause of the high death rate. I think we all know that TERFs are not likely to gun us down but their agenda that is filled with hate for transgender folks, mostly trans women, helps perpetuate violence against us. Transphobia is not okay and it really does kill. – The TERFS Social violence begins with social oppression. The
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Community significance
“The TERF Appropriation of the Trans Day of Remembrance” 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 Appropriation of the Trans Day of Remembrance” 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.
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The article’s strongest policy connection is housing and social services. 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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Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community68%
- 3Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict58%
- 4Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community13%
- 5Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life12%
- 6Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication9%
Academic framing
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Policy framing
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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).
Relative presence by year
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history198
- Community and organizing165
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization117
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse80
- Law and civil rights74
- Culture, identity, and representation73
- Education and youth58
- Healthcare and medicine55
- History, archives, and memory44
- Science, evidence, and expertise37
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13 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 4 distinct domains; the strongest available scholarly index reports 56 citing works. The dated evidence currently spans 2005–2026. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
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PGN! TERF Victoria Brownworth Teaches Us About Transphobia?! What, Julie Bindel wasn’t Available? | The Transadvocate
[...] More about the TERF appropriation of TDOR can be found here. [...]
TERF Appropriation of the Trans Day of Remembrance | The Transadvocate
[...] May 13, the TransAdvocate wrote about the appropriation of the Trans Day of Remembrance by Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists [...]
Responding To: Is It Wrong to Perform at Michfest? | The Transadvocate
[...] fix my body at just 5 years old the cismale experience? Is being part of a population in which 1 out of 2 are raped the cismale experience? The FAAB/MAAB narrative willfully obtuse and [...]
Responding To: Is It Wrong to Perform at Michfest?
[...] fix my body at just 5 years old the cismale experience? Is being part of a population in which 1 out of 2 are raped the cismale experience? The FAAB/MAAB narrative willfully obtuse and [...]
@TinTower
I hope she tries to vote using the Mobile App before realising she can't do it in the UK (TW: TERFs) http://t.co/bhalC1L5qz
My Exchange with the Southern Poverty Law Center | Ehipassiko
[...] trans community has asked itself recently why the supposed watchdog of extremist hate-groups – The Southern Poverty Law Center [...]
@DivaPolitica
The TERF Appropriation of the Trans Day of Remembrance http://t.co/fpsTs4G8Qm
@TransMD
#TERF appropriation of #tdor #Silence=Death. http://t.co/VsXP9smare
@EDTransphobia
RT @six_of_caprica: RT @transadvocate: The #TERF Appropriation of the Trans Day of Remembrance : http://t.co/9Sk0ProhEn #tdor #RadFem2013 @edtransphobia
@chereecorbin
RT @six_of_caprica: #radfem2013 participant and contributor, Cathy Brennan exploits dead trans women to justify transphobia. http://t.co/9Sk0ProhEn
@CyMadD0x
RT @six_of_caprica: #radfem2013 participant and contributor, Cathy Brennan exploits dead trans women to justify transphobia. http://t.co/9Sk0ProhEn
@frogtosser
RT @six_of_caprica: #radfem2013 participant and contributor, Cathy Brennan exploits dead trans women to justify transphobia. http://t.co/9Sk0ProhEn
cristanwilliams (@cristanwilliams)
RT @transadvocate: The #TERF Appropriation of the #Trans Day of Remembrance : http://t.co/TSWC3roBo7 #tdor #RadFem2013 #cisprivilege
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