5,000+ people agree: TERF group is a hate group
The nonprofit, Secular Women has created a petition calling on the Southern Poverty Law Center to regard TERF attorney, Cathy Brennan’s group, Gender Identity Watch, as a hate group. The petition starts off, “As a feminist organization, Secular Woman promotes gender equality. We stand against and combat sexism, hate, intolerance, and misogyny.” It then make the following radical claim: Transgender women are women. Cisgender women are women. The petition details the way Brennan and her group has acted to adversely interfere in the personal lives trans people Brennan designates as being fair game. Members of our community have been targeted by trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs). Personal information such as former names, current legal names, and photographs have been compiled and displayed on the website “Name the Problem”. Several of the entries are self-attributed to “Pegasus” (“PegasusBug” is a pseudonym of Cathy Brennan, the head of Gender Identity Watch). This information
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Community significance
“5,000+ people agree: TERF group is a hate group” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging feminism and gender politics. 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, “5,000+ people agree: TERF group is a hate group” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to feminism and gender politics. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
“5,000+ people agree: TERF group is a hate group” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for feminism and gender politics.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict66%
- 3Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life36%
- 4Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community30%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community21%
- 6Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict9%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing519
- Law and civil rights455
- Culture, identity, and representation305
- Education and youth288
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse247
- Healthcare and medicine229
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization226
- History, archives, and memory211
- Public policy and governance200
- Family and relationships186
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities170
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination161
- Criminal justice and public safety128
- Elections and democratic governance95
- Research ethics and data governance73
- Labor and employment policy51
- Housing and social services37
- Administrative classification and identity documents36
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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.
Cristan
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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