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Naming the problem

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Source Summary

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, discussing specific perpetrators of transphobia and transmisogyny. My reasoning for this has been that this shit is structural: one perpetrator does not a system make, and bringing the fucker down won’t heal anything without deep change. I prefer to discuss things more broadly, as a nod to the systemic nature of these problems. So let’s talk about the problem named Cathy Brennan. I doubt I need to introduce her to you. The first Google hit for her name gives a precis on what she’s like. For more, it’s really worth looking at the work the trans community has done on collating the abuse she has perpetrated and the heartbreaking personal accounts of what she’s done. Brennan is one of the most virulent

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Community significance

“Naming the problem” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to violence, safety, and dehumanization, 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 2013 at The TERFs, “Naming the problem” provides dated evidence of how violence, safety, and dehumanization 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.

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No dominant policy frame was detected in “Naming the problem.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of violence, safety, and dehumanization may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

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Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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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
80%

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How “Violence, safety, and dehumanization” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

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10 2009

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28 2011

15 2012

74 2013

40 2014

19 2015

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1 2024

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