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A Sincere Happy Mother’s Day Wish To Me From Cathy Brennan

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Source Summary

Back in 2011, Cathy Brennan and I were among a group of people working to pass Maryland’s HB 235 (Prohibiting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination) into law. I developed what I thought was a friendship with her while working on the bill — this was the e-mail she sent me that changed the tone of our relationship. I asked her in a comment thread on Pam’s House Blend, the blog I then contributed to, whether or not she considered trans women to be female (and I can’t find that comment thread now), and she responded in an email dated May 8, 2011. It was in that email that she first spelled out that she didn’t consider me, and as we later have seen in the multiple times she publicly stated her point of view regarding trans women, to be female. In May of 2011, she stated wouldn’t state her

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Community significance

“A Sincere Happy Mother’s Day Wish To Me From Cathy Brennan” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, 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 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “A Sincere Happy Mother’s Day Wish To Me From Cathy Brennan” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights 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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“A Sincere Happy Mother’s Day Wish To Me From Cathy Brennan” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with law and civil rights. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for transgender identity and history.

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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus

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Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 89 inbound sources/citations