#TERFLogic: Only cis women “feel” like women, trans women can’t
Apparently this gender critical has worked hard to not ask trans people about gender orientation. Here’s a little trans 101: Rate this example of #TERFLogic! Rating System: 1 star = Relatively Reasonable 5 stars = Total Bullshit [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”] Report TERF Harassment | Where did “TERF” come from? | Deconstructing TERF Tropes | The Conversations Project #TERFLogic is our daily effort to prove that the anti-trans hate movement calling itself “Radical Feminism” and/or “Gender Critical Feminism” is neither. [yasr_top_ten_highest_rated] 0
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“#TERFLogic: Only cis women “feel” like women, trans women can’t” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging transgender identity and history. 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 2016 at The TERFs, “#TERFLogic: Only cis women “feel” like women, trans women can’t” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
No dominant policy frame was detected in “#TERFLogic: Only cis women “feel” like women, trans women can’t.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of feminism and gender politics may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community13%
- 3Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community13%
- 4Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict13%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 3 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history199
- Community and organizing166
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization117
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse81
- Law and civil rights74
- Culture, identity, and representation72
- Education and youth59
- Healthcare and medicine55
- History, archives, and memory45
- Science, evidence, and expertise37
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Marti Abernathey
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Kat
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
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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Examines a closely shared theme in greater detail or with a more specialized framing.
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#TERFLogic: TERFs don’t hate trans people… except trans lesbians.
Examines a closely shared theme in greater detail or with a more specialized framing.
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Naming the problem
Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.
What follows are the words of a cisgender feminist who can no longer not name the problem: I suppose in the past I’ve avoided, for the most part,…