1997: TERF Academia Asserts Transition = Political Psychiatry in the Soviet Union
In a published peer-reviewed paper, Dr. Sheila Jeffreys asserts: could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights. The mutilation of healthy bodies and the subjection of such bodies to dangerous and life-threatening continuing treatment violates such people’s rights to live with dignity in the body into which they were born, what Janice Raymond refers to as their “native” bodies. It represents an attack on the body to rectify a political condition, “gender” dissatisfaction in a male supremacist society based upon a false and politically constructed notion of gender difference… Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism. – Sheila Jeffreys, Australian TERF opinion leader, author and speaker Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families by Arlene Istar
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Community significance
“1997: TERF Academia Asserts Transition = Political Psychiatry in the Soviet Union” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, 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 2013 at The TERFs, “1997: TERF Academia Asserts Transition = Political Psychiatry in the Soviet Union” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics 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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Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community63%
- 3Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life52%
- 4Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community37%
- 5Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life30%
- 6Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict30%
Academic framing
- 1100%
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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history198
- Community and organizing165
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization117
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse80
- Law and civil rights74
- Culture, identity, and representation73
- Education and youth58
- Healthcare and medicine55
- History, archives, and memory44
- Science, evidence, and expertise37
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Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
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