“Being Feminist” and Their Transphobia Problem
*Disclaimer* This post is on a site exposing TERFs but we are not insinuating that Being Feminists are part of that group. UPDATE: LA has apologized for and removed the inflammatory post on Being Feminist’s Facebook page! Thank you so much! Dear members, I am the admin ~LA, and I’m writing to say sorry to all the people on the page who were hurt and marginalised either directly or indirectly as a result of my post from yesterday. The post has been deleted. I am sorry that my post made some trans*people feel unsafe here. That was the opposite of my intent. I truly believe in the equality of everyone in the feminist movement, and in the rights of everyone to assert their identity. I believe that everyone has a place in the feminist movement, so long as we all believe in the equality of all PEOPLE, no matter what
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Community significance
““Being Feminist” and Their Transphobia Problem” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging community and organizing. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning feminism and gender politics. Published in 2013 by The TERFs, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how community and organizing was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to feminism and gender politics and community and organizing, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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%
- 2Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community56%
- 3Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict54%
- 4Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community48%
- 5Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict39%
- 6Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life23%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 283%
- 367%
- 450%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 250%
Editorial function
Source topics
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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
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
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