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Trans Erasure and the Old Bailey

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Source Summary

Today’s guest post is from Catherine Butler. Butler is an academic and writer, living in Bristol, UK and blogs here. Trans erasure happens in all kinds of places, but it happens most to those who lack a voice: children, the poor and ill-educated, and the dead. A young child gets bullied at school for preferring dolls to football. Teachers can know nothing about the child’s future sexuality. Nor can they know whether the child is trans. Maybe the child just likes dolls, end of? But the form on which they record the incident has only one box, and it is marked “homophobic bullying”. If she was a trans girl, that fact is erased. Then there’s the 2010 case of Malawian Tiwonge Chimbalanga, possibly trans, possibly intersex, but pretty clearly not (pace most of the Western media) a gay man. But then, what would she know about her own identity? According

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Trans Erasure and the Old Bailey” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to education and youth, while also engaging culture, identity, and representation. 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 education and youth. Published in 2011 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how culture, identity, and representation was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

“Trans Erasure and the Old Bailey” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with education and youth. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for culture, identity, and representation.

Content analysis

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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
100%
2
Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
88%
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History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
56%
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Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
50%
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
19%

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Historical analysis
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How “Education and youth” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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16 2008

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27 2011

36 2012

106 2013

54 2014

14 2015

10 2016

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3 2019

2 2020

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

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57 publications · 87 inbound sources/citations

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Cristan Williams

319 publications · 3,580 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.