TERFs side with Fox News
Unsurprisingly, Cathy Brennan, opinion leader in of the TERF movement has, of course, chosen to side with the Fox News and the Pacific Justice Institute: Brennan, an attorney the LGBT Bar Association disavowed… … links to the original right-wing letter asserting that the trans kid is a predator. In the letter, the anti-gay hate group asserts that the transgender youth is sexually harassing cisgender girls and that the school is part of a trans conspiracy to endanger cisgender women. Brennan has uploaded the Pacific Justice Institute’s letter to her site and is featuring it without noting that the allegations are false or that news media who’ve investigated the claims have removed the story. The letter Brennan offers asserts: The trans student, “has made sexually harassing comments towards the girls” The school has, “threatened students with penalties ranging from charges of hate crimes to dismissal from school sports” for asking that
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Community significance
“TERFs side with Fox News” may matter to community readers because it connects education and youth with organizing, advocacy, or collective experience. Its discussion of transgender identity and history gives readers a concrete point of entry into the concerns and strategies represented in the article.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2013 at The TERFs, “TERFs side with Fox News” provides dated evidence of how education and youth 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
“TERFs side with Fox News” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with education and youth. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for transgender identity and history.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community33%
- 3Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict26%
- 4Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community22%
- 5Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication17%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
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How “Education and youth” 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
- Transgender identity and history288
- Community and organizing174
- Law and civil rights147
- Healthcare and medicine88
- Culture, identity, and representation87
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization87
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse86
- Family and relationships85
- History, archives, and memory74
- Science, evidence, and expertise66
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