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New feature:TA Tidbits

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I’m stealing a way of posting from Autumn and Stephanie over at Abnormal Heights. With TA tidbits, I’m going to post multiple trans stories I find with just a bit of commentary in one post. So without further ado…. ***A new television series debuts this fall called “The Dirty Life” that stars Billy Baldwin and Candis Cayne. He quipped to E! Online: Who’s in Patrick’s closet? A secret transsexual lover named Carmelita, played by real-life transsexual Candis Cayne “Ironically, with all the dysfunction going on in our show, people who have watched episodes two through six are saying that the most sweet, normal and most functional relationship on the show is the one between her and I,” Baldwin says. And he says he had no trepidation about their love scenes. “She’s the hottest woman on set,” Baldwin says. “Every time she walks across the set or across the lot, she

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Community significance

“New feature:TA Tidbits” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging family and relationships. 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 2007 at Transadvocate.com, “New feature:TA Tidbits” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to family and relationships. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected in “New feature:TA Tidbits.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of transgender identity and history may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

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Themes

  1. 1
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    100%
  2. 2
    Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    30%
  3. 3
    Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    11%

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  1. 1100%

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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. Transgender identity and history to Family and relationships: Related theme in the same family
Family and relationships
Transgender identity and history to Religion and morality: Separate but related
Religion and morality
Transgender identity and historyRank 1
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This article appeared 6 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Autumn Sandeen

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

TransAdvocate Staff

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.

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Related academic framing

1988: Transgender = Transsexual

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith, and Love by Brian McNaught, 1988, page 28

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Related academic framing

The Bible Tells Me So: Transsexualism Is Not A Sin

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

I have to admit that ignorant Christians get on my nerves, especially when it comes to discussing transgender people and genital “mutilation”. This was brought to mind yesterday…

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-1055-496A
Counterpoint

That Old Tranny Religion!

Offers a critical, contrasting, or corrective interpretation of the shared issue.

I am an atheist/agnostic so I’m not sure why Jesus has been on my mind lately, but he has. So many Christian bloggers have written about the sin…

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-1206-E605