Making trans-hate sound reasonable
By Natacha Kennedy Michelle Goldberg’s awful article in The New Yorker will be considered by many to be just another example of the sort of biased rubbish trans people have come to get used to from the media. This kind of article is the sort of thing that (dis)graces plenty of TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) sites and marginal online publications that try to be ‘edgy’or ‘iconoclastic in the knowledge that having a go at trans people is the last refuge of those who can no longer get away with other forms of bigotry. However, it should not be dismissed so readily. This article was written by someone who knows the subject well and wanted to present a particularly one-sided view in a major publication. I have obtained the opinions of a number of cisgender people about the article, including that of the editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick.
The Source Summary reproduces the first 150 words of the source article unless a Collective editor has explicitly locked a replacement.
Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Making trans-hate sound reasonable” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging feminism and gender politics. 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 transgender identity and history. Published in 2014 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how feminism and gender politics was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and feminism and gender politics, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict88%
- 3Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict53%
- 4Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication33%
- 5Sex and gender classificationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict15%
- 6Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life10%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 267%
- 333%
- 433%
Policy framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
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- Separate but related themes
These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.
How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing531
- Law and civil rights468
- Culture, identity, and representation320
- Education and youth308
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
- Healthcare and medicine248
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
- History, archives, and memory216
- Public policy and governance206
- Feminism and gender politics198
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities177
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
- Criminal justice and public safety131
- Elections and democratic governance100
- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.
Documented circulation and reception
2 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 2 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently falls in 2014. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
Evidence by channel
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Shows what has actually been checkedDocumented references over time
Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveRadical Feminists Who Hate Transgenders - Blur Brain
[…] Secondly, there is an article that answers the above article with an opinion that the above article legitimizes the hatred that these kind of radical feminists have for transgender people, Making trans-hate sound reasonable. […]
August 15, 2014 | Trans* Today
[…] Making trans-hate sound reasonable […]
Counts describe documented circulation and reception in the sources currently available to the Collective. They are not a score of quality, merit, popularity, or social value, and provider totals can overlap.
Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
Mari
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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