Gender Nation: Catholic Bishops & Trump’s DOJ are liars
Gender Nation is a bi-weekly column by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, the founder of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, reviewing news affecting the trans, intersex, and genderqueer community. Department of Justice caught fibbing about trans troops In yet another “last-ditch” effort to continue their ban on transgender troops, the Trump administration has been caught in a lie. In seeking a stay of the most recent order to left transgender people serve openly beginning on the 1st of January, the United States Department of Justice claimed that some 23,000 recruiters and medical examiners would need to have extensive training, and there would simply not be time enough to complete it before the ruling would take effect. “Without this relief, the military will be forced to implement a significant change to its standards for the composition of the armed forces before it decides how to resolve this issue,” stated the DOJ in its
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Gender Nation: Catholic Bishops & Trump’s DOJ are liars” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. 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 2017 at Transadvocate.com, “Gender Nation: Catholic Bishops & Trump’s DOJ are liars” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to healthcare and medicine. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
“Gender Nation: Catholic Bishops & Trump’s DOJ are liars” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for healthcare and medicine.
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
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life20%
- 3Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community15%
- 4Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life11%
- 5Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life9%
- 6Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication6%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 240%
- 330%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 4 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
- Community and organizing531
- Law and civil rights468
- Culture, identity, and representation320
- Education and youth308
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
- Healthcare and medicine248
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
- History, archives, and memory216
- Public policy and governance206
- Feminism and gender politics198
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities177
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
- Criminal justice and public safety131
- Elections and democratic governance100
- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
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Documented circulation and reception
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Author profiles and related researchers
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