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ENDA And Barney Frank’s Trans Penis Panic

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In a recent interview with Karen Ocamb, Barney Frank said: “I’m hoping to get a vote on it in committee . I’m doing a lot of work on it quietly, to get the issues involving transgender access to rooms where people have their clothes off. That’s a fact that you have to deal with, particularly for people who have not had an operation.” Frank has had a reputation for having a preoccupation with preoperative trans-women’s penises. Since writing “A Frank Bitch Slap“, I’ve feared about Frank’s public outbursts concerning the transgender penis. Miranda Stevens-Miller said of Barney Frank: A little while later, I found Barney without a group of people around him, so I once again engaged him in conversation. “So,” I said, “does your support of transgender inclusion in the VAWA mean that you might be changing your mind about inclusion of gender-variant people in ENDA?” An innocent enough

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Community significance

“ENDA And Barney Frank’s Trans Penis Panic” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging labor, economics, and institutions. 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 2010 at Transadvocate.com, “ENDA And Barney Frank’s Trans Penis Panic” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to labor, economics, and institutions. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is labor and employment policy and public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and labor, economics, and institutions, 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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    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    100%
  2. 2
    Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    15%
  3. 3
    Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    13%
  4. 4
    Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
    12%
  5. 5
    Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    10%
  6. 6
    Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    7%

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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 Labor, economics, and institutions: Separate but related
Labor, economics, and institutions
Transgender identity and history to Law and civil rights: Separate but related
Law and civil rights
Transgender identity and history to Media, rhetoric, and discourse: Separate but related
Media, rhetoric, and discourse
Transgender identity and history to Culture, identity, and representation: Related theme in the same family
Culture, identity, and representation
Transgender identity and history to Community and organizing: Related theme in the same family
Community and organizing
Transgender identity and historyRank 1
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This article appeared 3 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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12 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 11 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently spans 2010–2017. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

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Notes on Sherry Wolf’s “Sexuality and Socialism” Pt. 3 – you found me. · patmosley.wordpress.com · March 29, 2017

[…] The question has to be asked, would Frank support the same restrictions on gay and lesbian members of the armed forces that he’s asking of transgender workers? One only need look to the newspaper to see gay men acting out in restrooms. The reality…

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‘No Homo’ #DNCLeaks Latest in Dems’ Culture of Queer-Antagonism | you found me.

‘No Homo’ #DNCLeaks Latest in Dems’ Culture of Queer-Antagonism | you found me. · patmosley.wordpress.com · July 25, 2016

[…] same-sex couples to adopt, and 20-34% in strong opposition to same-sex marriage. Barney Frank also galvanized conservative opposition to ENDA by validating transphobia about trans women and gender non-conforming […]

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6 Ways Femmephobia Is Harming LGBTQIA+ Communities Posted on February 26, 2016 by //<![CDATA[ reddit_url="http://www.brynntannehill.com/6-ways-femmephobia-is-harming-lgbtqia-communities/"; //]]> Someone once said that most people only have…

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There is No EQUALITY in “Lesbiman” | GENDERTRENDERS

There is No EQUALITY in “Lesbiman” | GENDERTRENDERS · gendertrenders.wordpress.com · August 5, 2013

[…] Yet the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would provide protection for lesbians from being fired just for being lesbian, has still not been passed by Congress despite dumping the transgender community under the bus. […]

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There is No T in Lesbian | Liberation Collective

There is No T in Lesbian | Liberation Collective · liberationcollective.wordpress.com · August 4, 2013

[…] the rest of their coalition’s rights. Outrageously, most of their socio-political resistance has focused on the inclusion of language allowing males to use female bathrooms on the basis of gender identity. (Also note at that link the hateful language used toward a gay […]

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Cisnormativity Constructed as Respectability Politics « TAL9000

Cisnormativity Constructed as Respectability Politics « TAL9000 · tal9000.wordpress.com · October 17, 2012

[...] position as enforcers is taken when a gay Congressman removes trans protections from a rights bill, on the grounds that trans women must not have a legally acknowledged right to use the appropriate re.... This position is taken when a lesbian “radical feminist” demands…

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The Politics of Enforced Rhetorical Amnesia and the Rhetoric of Enforced Political Amnesia « ENDAblog

The Politics of Enforced Rhetorical Amnesia and the Rhetoric of Enforced Political Amnesia « ENDAblog · endablog.wordpress.com · April 18, 2011

[...] have very short memories. They forget that Barney Frank, self admittedly, was tampering with “bathroom” language in ENDA to make it “acceptable”. As Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Hawaii go, [...]

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» history history history

» history history history · transadvocate.com · May 25, 2010

[...] so poignantly revisited time and time again through out history, was brought to mind while reading marti’s post from the mothership (or would that be the [...]

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ENDA: Barney Frank Shows His True Colors Yet Again « Questioning Transphobia

ENDA: Barney Frank Shows His True Colors Yet Again « Questioning Transphobia · questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com · May 12, 2010

[...] kind of restroom panic is not new to Barney Frank, as Marti lays out in excruciating and extensive detail. Barney has always been obsessed with trans women’s genitals, constantly bringing up [...]

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Melissa turns in her big gay crush « I'll give you a second to catch your breath

Melissa turns in her big gay crush « I'll give you a second to catch your breath · missionmelissa.wordpress.com · May 12, 2010

[...] I haven’t been through all the statements and all the links but this is one I feel describes it best:http://www.transadvocate.com/enda-and-barney-franks-trans-penis-panic.htm [...]

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To Barney Frank, RE: ENDA « Piece Apart

To Barney Frank, RE: ENDA « Piece Apart · pieceapart.wordpress.com · April 20, 2010

[...] been well-documented that, like the Christian right, he’s obsessed with trans women using women’s bathrooms, “penises in showers,” and claims that “If you insist on the right for [...]

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Cristan Williams

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

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