Christ Commands You To Get Your Ass Kicked!
From the Evangelical Bible: I Fundamentalists: 1 And Christ said “if you’re a transsexual, you’re doomed. 2You deserve to be raped or sexually assaulted.” Or so it would seem from the Jesus blogosphere : “If I may put this delicately, will these bathrooms make any concessions to that biological reality formerly known as “sexuality?” You know, body parts; will men be able to use the facilities in a manly way, or must we sit? One of the more painful memories of my life was visiting my brothers, David and Nathan, at Macalester College and having to use their coed dorm bathroom. Icky yuck-yuck. Gross. Cooties were caught.” – Bayly Blog Apparently these “men of God” have an issue with gender neutral bathrooms that are safe places for transgender people. “If you are a man, you use the men’s room. If you are a woman, you use the woman’s room. Simple,
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Christ Commands You To Get Your Ass Kicked!” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging education and youth. 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 2007 at Transadvocate.com, “Christ Commands You To Get Your Ass Kicked!” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to education and youth. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and education and youth, 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%
- 2Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life33%
- 3Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict33%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
- 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 6 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
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Documented circulation and reception
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Evidence by channel
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Coverage of the evidence search
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Author profiles and related researchers
Related authors in the Collective corpus
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