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Colleen Francis and the infamous Evergreen State College incident

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The mere mention of the incident should send shivers down your spine. Trans people who support protections based on gender identity should feel nervous when Colleen’s name is mentioned. If you’re trans, you should hope that this incident fades into the distance and is never brought up in polite conversations. For the uninitiated, here’s a recap from Fox News: A Washington college said their non-discrimination policy prevents them from stopping a transgender man from exposing himself to young girls inside a women’s locker room, according to a group of concerned parents. “Little girls should not be exposed to naked men, period,” said David Hacker, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defending Freedom. A group of concerned parents contacted the legal firm for help. Hacker said a 45-year-old male student, who dresses as a woman and goes by the name Colleen Francis, undressed and exposed his genitals on several occasions inside

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“Colleen Francis and the infamous Evergreen State College incident” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to education and youth, 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.

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The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning education and youth. Published in 2013 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.

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The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety and public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to education and youth and transgender identity and history, 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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    Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    100%
  2. 2
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    69%
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    Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    57%
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    Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
    23%
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    Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    17%
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    Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    14%

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Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Education and youth to Transgender identity and history: Overlapping theme
Transgender identity and history
Education and youth to Law and civil rights: Overlapping sibling theme
Law and civil rights
Education and youth to Media, rhetoric, and discourse: Separate but related
Media, rhetoric, and discourse
Education and youth to Culture, identity, and representation: Separate but related
Culture, identity, and representation
Education and youth to Public policy and governance: Related theme in the same family
Public policy and governance
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14 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 6 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently spans 2013–2015. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

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Bigots Unite! Deploying the Klan Fallacy in 3… 2… 1… | The TransAdvocate

Bigots Unite! Deploying the Klan Fallacy in 3… 2… 1… | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · August 12, 2014

The issue I’m writing about today is that these groups regularly deploy what I’m going to call the ‘Klan Fallacy’ against transwomen. The most recent incarnation of this particular fallacy is the (now thoroughly DEBUNKED) Colleen Francis meme.

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Houston trans-inclusive equity ordinance survives | The TransAdvocate

Houston trans-inclusive equity ordinance survives | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · August 5, 2014

Republican State Representative Dwayne Bohac claimed that the Houston equality ordinance is a “threat to religious liberty” because it would force people to treat LGBT people equally. Furthermore, he claimed that equal rights would mean that children may be molested. Bohac, invoking the Klan Fallacy,…

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The Playbook: Equality comes to Houston, the fringe freaks out, threatens to kill Mayor | The TransAdvocate

The Playbook: Equality comes to Houston, the fringe freaks out, threatens to kill Mayor | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · June 5, 2014

Republican State Representative Dwayne Bohac claimed that the Houston equality ordinance is a “threat to religious liberty” because it would force people to treat LGBT people equally. Furthermore, he claimed that equal rights would mean that children may be molested. Bohac, invoking the Klan Fallacy,…

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Increasingly, anti-trans = anti-abortion: #protransprochoice | The TransAdvocate

Increasingly, anti-trans = anti-abortion: #protransprochoice | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · April 11, 2014

The right to body autonomy and being free from oppressive gender stereotypes is an issue that’s near and dear to my heart. I’ve noticed that the same hubris people who stand in the way of trans people are generally the same people who are standing…

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texasyojimbo · caledonianmafia.wordpress.com · October 26, 2015

The Houston Press’s Jef Rouner, speaking as a parent, tells it like it is: This is the scenario people opposed to the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance want me to believe is going to happen: my little girl, all pink eyeglasses, blond curls, and a sass…

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Grounded Parents | The Gay Agenda #2: Let’s talk about bathrooms

Grounded Parents | The Gay Agenda #2: Let’s talk about bathrooms · groundedparents.com · May 3, 2015

[…] vague “I’ve heard lots of stories” kind. The one story that showed up over and over was the Evergreen State College incident. To be honest, I couldn’t sort out the truth about that one from what I could source up […]

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To Michelle Duggar, Michael Brown, and the Rest: Stop Attacking Trans WomenThe Atheist Post

To Michelle Duggar, Michael Brown, and the Rest: Stop Attacking Trans WomenThe Atheist Post · theatheistpost.com · December 5, 2014

[…] omitted from mainstream coverage. Here’s what Cristan Williams, a writer for The TransAdvocate, wrote in response a year later after speaking to the school’s president and other […]

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Sadly, No! » Piss-ing off the Haters

Sadly, No! » Piss-ing off the Haters · sadlyno.com · October 26, 2014

[…] Mmm hmm. […]

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Fool me once: Toronto Star doubles down on their anti-trans hoax | The Transadvocate

Fool me once: Toronto Star doubles down on their anti-trans hoax | The Transadvocate · transadvocate.com · January 10, 2014

[…] may have had the very best of intentions, it seems that he was duped by anti-trans activists who regularly seek to get unwitting journalists to publish their hoaxes. I personally believe that Gallinger probably […]

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Recent Toronto Star Article – Did it happen? - LGBT (Trans) Ohio

Recent Toronto Star Article – Did it happen? - LGBT (Trans) Ohio · lgbtohio.us · January 8, 2014

[…] Media Reports Evergreen State College Theresa Rickman L.A. Peeping Tom – Trans Child Right Wings Gets it Wrong […]

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Cristan Williams

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Marian

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

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