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NOW state rep talks with the TransAdvocate about TERFs, trans-inclusion and civil rights

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I heard of Poppy years before I met her. I knew her to be a major force behind Southern feminism. Poppy has a long history of working for reproductive rights both as an attorney and as a volunteer clinic escort. It was as a volunteer clinic defender that I got to personally know her. The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest multi-issue women’s rights organization in the United States dedicated to taking action to bring women into full equality. Frances “Poppy” Northcutt is the President of the Houston Area Chapter of NOW and of Texas State NOW. Poppy is a semi-retired attorney who began her professional life working in the space program as a return-to-earth specialist. She was the first woman to work in NASA’s Mission Control Center in an operational role during the Apollo 8 spaceflight. She became an activist in the women’s rights movement in the

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Community significance

“NOW state rep talks with the TransAdvocate about TERFs, trans-inclusion and civil rights” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging law and civil rights. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

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The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning feminism and gender politics. Published in 2014 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how law and civil rights was framed at that moment.

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The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to feminism and gender politics and law and civil rights, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus

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Increasingly, anti-trans = anti-abortion: #protransprochoice | The TransAdvocate

Increasingly, anti-trans = anti-abortion: #protransprochoice | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · February 14, 2015

I was happy to learn that the president of a state NOW chapter will be doing a TransAdvocate interview, echoing these sentiments. Additionally, I was happy to see Planned Parenthood and NARAL give voice to these intersections of oppression as well: