Do Not Blame Trans People For The Fact That, At Midnight, Maryland Will Have No Statewide Trans Protections
The reason that the Maryland legal status quo of today is trans-free is not the fault of anyone who opposed HB235. The Maryland legal status quo of today was created by the people who engineered a gay-only rights bill for themselves a decade ago. That’s reality. The people who opposed HB235 for non-christofascist reasons were simply trying to keep things from getting worse. That’s reality, because… This is indeed a sign of the times – those times being 2001. So what about HB235 you ask? Well, spinmeisters are already declaring that trans people were ‘kicked like dogs’ today. Clearly those spinmeisters didn’t stay awak in math class long enough to learn that there are numbers less than zero. As a fictional version of John F. Kennedy learned, dying was not the worst thing that could have happened to him on Nov. 22, 1963. Similarly, NO ‘T’ – zero in math
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Community significance
“Do Not Blame Trans People For The Fact That, At Midnight, Maryland Will Have No Statewide Trans Protections” may matter to community readers because it records a specific intervention in debates about law and civil rights, with particular attention to transgender identity and history. The permanent record makes that intervention easier to locate and compare with other Collective coverage.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “Do Not Blame Trans People For The Fact That, At Midnight, Maryland Will Have No Statewide Trans Protections” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights 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
The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and transgender identity and history, 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
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Themes
- 1Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community63%
- 3Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict19%
- 4Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict9%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 275%
- 338%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 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
- Transgender identity and history455
- Community and organizing291
- Public policy and governance159
- Education and youth147
- Culture, identity, and representation141
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization136
- Labor, economics, and institutions131
- Family and relationships129
- History, archives, and memory115
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse114
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination170
- Public accommodations and facilities125
- Elections and democratic governance96
- Criminal justice and public safety86
- Labor and employment policy50
- Research ethics and data governance49
- Housing and social services31
- Administrative classification and identity documents22
Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.
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Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
Cristan
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
Marti Abernathey
Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.
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