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Telegraph hatred for Trans folk?

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Today’s guest post comes from Jane Fae. Fae is a free-lance journalist, writing about law and computer technology, privacy and censorship. She has been a regular contributor to The Register and The Guardian. She blogs at Jane Fae The UK’s Telegraph newspaper was today accused of displaying outright contempt for the trans community as well as a callous disregard for the feelings of relatives of deceased lawyer, Sonia Burgess, by deliberately going out of their way to misgender the victim. The misgendering appeared yesterday, in reports of the first day of the trial of Senthooran Kanagasingham, 35, formerly known as Nina, accused of Sonia’s murder In opening remarks, prosecuting counsel noted that while maintaining her birth gender for work purposes, Sonia otherwise lived full-time as a woman: her family were aware of this and it was their wish that she be referred to throughout the trial as such. It is

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Community significance

“Telegraph hatred for Trans folk?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to family and relationships, 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 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “Telegraph hatred for Trans folk?” provides dated evidence of how family and relationships 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 research ethics and data governance and administrative classification and identity documents. It links that institutional frame to family and relationships 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.

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Themes

  1. 1
    Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    100%
  2. 2
    Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    86%
  3. 3
    Technology, data, and platformsTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
    57%
  4. 4
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    38%
  5. 5
    Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    38%
  6. 6
    Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
    38%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%

Editorial function

Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Family and relationships to Law and civil rights: Overlapping theme
Law and civil rights
Family and relationships to Technology, data, and platforms: Separate but related
Technology, data, and platforms
Family and relationships to Transgender identity and history: Related theme in the same family
Transgender identity and history
Family and relationships to Community and organizing: Related theme in the same family
Community and organizing
Family and relationships to Media, rhetoric, and discourse: Separate but related
Media, rhetoric, and discourse
Family and relationshipsRank 1
Relationship key
  • Overlapping themes
  • Separate but related themes
  • Related theme in the same family
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This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Article authors

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Guest

57 publications · 87 inbound sources/citations

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Cristan Williams

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Cristan Williams

143 publications · 714 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Mari

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 89 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

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