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TERFs join anti-Feminists in order to attack trans children

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Source Summary

To summarize its arguments, the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) asserts that interpreting anti-discrimination laws to protect transgender students from harassment will somehow result in the erasure of women and girls as a protected class. This argument mirrors the justification that Phyllis Schlafly gave for her opposition to the ERA: Any legislation that reduces discrimination based on sex or gender actually endangers women and girls by erasing important differences between men and women. “The vague, poorly written language of the ERA does not allow any distinction to be made between men and women – even when it makes sense to do so based on their biological differences” [emphasis in original]. In fact, Schlafly said, “[the] ERA would impact the privacy and safety of women and girls by removing gender designations for bathrooms, locker rooms, jails and hospital rooms” [emphasis in original]. Read the full article here. 1+

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Community significance

“TERFs join anti-Feminists in order to attack trans children” may matter to community readers because it records a specific intervention in debates about law and civil rights, with particular attention to violence, safety, and dehumanization. The permanent record makes that intervention easier to locate and compare with other Collective coverage.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2019 at The TERFs, “TERFs join anti-Feminists in order to attack trans children” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights was being argued in relation to violence, safety, and dehumanization. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and research ethics and data governance. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and violence, safety, and dehumanization, 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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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
100%
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Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
67%
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
50%
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Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
50%
5
Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
42%
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Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
17%

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Interpretive analysis
100%

Policy framing

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Civil rights and anti-discrimination
100%
2
Research ethics and data governance
43%

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How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 6 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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13 2005

6 2006

43 2007

38 2008

23 2009

6 2010

107 2011

45 2012

125 2013

57 2014

17 2015

7 2016

14 2017

22 2018

6 2019

1 2021

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