#TERFLogic: video games & the internet make people trans
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“#TERFLogic: video games & the internet make people trans” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging technology, data, and platforms. 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 2016 at The TERFs, “#TERFLogic: video games & the internet make people trans” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to technology, data, and platforms. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
No dominant policy frame was detected in “#TERFLogic: video games & the internet make people trans.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of feminism and gender politics may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Technology, data, and platformsTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication17%
- 3Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community13%
- 4Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict13%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
- Separate but related themes
- Related theme in the same family
These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.
How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 3 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
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
Academic framings in this topic
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Documented circulation and reception
No broad reception evidence has been documented yet; this may reflect unconfigured or incomplete indexes rather than an absence of circulation. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
Evidence by channel
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Coverage of the evidence search
Shows what has actually been checkedNo individual references have been stored yet. This can mean that source-held pingbacks have not been imported, provider access is not configured, or available indexes do not expose this work in a machine-readable form.
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Marti Abernathey
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
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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