Voting While Trans
One of the highlights of the 2000 presidential election cycle for me despite the jacked up way it turned out was it was the first time I got to cast a ballot in any election cycle as Moni. I transitioned in 1993 but it took me a few years to get the name changed on much of my paper trail I was so proud and pleased to show my voter registration card to the poll watcher after standing in live for over an hour at the Bayland Park early voting site on a clear October fall afternoon waiting to cast my early ballot in that Gore-GW Bush presidential race. It was to me another evolutionary leap toward becoming the Phenomenat Transwoman I am today. It’s now 12 years later and we are facing another critical presidential election about to take place in less than 36 days. But the Republican sponsored
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Voting While Trans” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to race and intersectionality, while also engaging legal analysis. 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 2012 at Transadvocate.com, “Voting While Trans” provides dated evidence of how race and intersectionality was being argued in relation to legal analysis. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is elections and democratic governance. It links that institutional frame to race and intersectionality and legal analysis, 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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Themes
- 1Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
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How “Race and intersectionality” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2014.
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveSunday News Round-Up, Got Distracted So I’m Still at Level 89 Edition « Women's Health News
[...] coverage of photo ID laws as voter suppression has been focused on older/low-income/student voters, Monica’s piece at The Transadvocate reminds me that it can be a real threat to transgender folks too, such as when providing ID to [...]
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