Gender Fundamentalists
Many of us in the LGBT community are painfully aware of the religious fundamentalists who have such a wonderful time coming up with lies and fear tactics to throw out to the uneducated masses. They know full well that a great deal of those Americans will believe anything they are told, if you follow it up with “Praise the Lord.” Of course, their true God is the Almighty Dollar, which they get in abundance from those people who don’t know any better. We hear a lot about the Islamic fundamentalists and how they are such a threat to America. In many ways, they are ranked amateurs compared to the Christian fundamentalists here in the US. Oh yes, we hear of gays being executed in the country that has no gays, Iran. I’m sure that every time that happens, Beverly LaHaye, ChairMAN of the Concerned “June Cleavers” for America, salivates, hoping
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Gender Fundamentalists” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging community and organizing. 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 2008 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how community and organizing was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and elections and democratic governance. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and community and organizing, 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%
- 2Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community35%
- 3Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict24%
- 4Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life16%
- 5History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication12%
- 6Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life10%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 267%
- 350%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 275%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its 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
1 source-held reference records an early link or citation; the documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently falls in 2008. 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 CollectiveRecord Keeping « Gorgon Queen
[...] recent entry on Transadvocate has given me a good opportunity to expand on a few things in a different mode than purely reactive, [...]
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