When Rape Isn’t Rape, and Trans Veterans Aren’t Terrorists
Trans-exclusionary radical feminist thought leader, Janice Raymond, once famously said: “All transsexuals rape women’s bodies by reducing the real female form to an artifact, appropriating this body for themselves.” All transsexuals rape women’s bodies? Last I checked rape was non-consensual, forced sexual intercourse. Raymond’s use of it as something less than that should be considered an insult to the victims of rape everywhere. Now Gallus Mag is claiming: on Veteran’s Day the person on the left: is a terrorist. Autumn Sandeen, the trans person who went to jail so gays and lesbians could serve in the military openly, is a terrorist? The irony is that TERF thought leaders will claim that words like cisgender and acronyms like TERF are slurs. But they have no issue bending the words “rape” and “terrorist” to the point they make no sense in context, without changing (and lessening) the meaning of the words themselves.
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Community significance
“When Rape Isn’t Rape, and Trans Veterans Aren’t Terrorists” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging interpretive 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 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “When Rape Isn’t Rape, and Trans Veterans Aren’t Terrorists” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to interpretive analysis. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
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- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
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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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When Rape Isn’t Rape, and Trans Veterans Aren’t Terrorists
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Autumn Sandeen
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Gwen Smith
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TransAdvocate Staff
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