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Gender Orientation, Identity, and Expression

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I’ve witnessed many arguments and misunderstandings explode over the conflation of these THREE dimensions of what we in trans discourse collectively refer to as gender: Gender Orientation: One’s […]

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How “Media, rhetoric, and discourse” appears across the Collective corpus

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  1. Transadvocate.com232
  2. The TERFs17
  3. Cristan’s Research11

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  1. Transgender identity and history218
  2. Community and organizing133
  3. Law and civil rights100
  4. Feminism and gender politics79
  5. Culture, identity, and representation77
  6. Education and youth69
  7. History, archives, and memory64
  8. Violence, safety, and dehumanization63
  9. Science, evidence, and expertise49
  10. Healthcare and medicine48

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  3. Historical analysis89
  4. Clinical and medical analysis43
  5. Psychological analysis43
  6. Qualitative and interview research39
  7. Critical theory36
  8. Empirical and quantitative research16

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  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination35
  3. Criminal justice and public safety28
  4. Elections and democratic governance24
  5. Research ethics and data governance17
  6. Education policy13
  7. Administrative classification and identity documents11
  8. Housing and social services10

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Collective citation

A trans advocate’s perspective on Trans 101 questions

Cristan Williams · January 20, 2015

Trans people who will probably contemplate transition at some point will experience anything from annoyance to profound and crippling suffering regarding any of these 3 issues at some point. Generally speaking, for transsexuals, one will begin experiencing significant issues with Category A at a very early age. It is common…

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Et tu, Caroline Criado-Perez?

Marian · August 6, 2014

So, there you have it, the common cognitive obstacle that I see over-and-over-and-over again among fellow cisgender feminists. Fundamentally, it’s not the word “cis” they have a problem with but the phrase “gender identity”. Having used the term “gender” to refer to a culturally constructed class for so long, that…

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Hair does not make the woman, Sarah Ditum

Cristan Williams · July 5, 2014

But no matter, to Sarah Ditum there is no such thing as “gender identity” because she has not experienced it in the same way that she experiences sexual orientation. She does not find the evidence for this “element of the psyche” “persuasive”. She rejects the term “cis” (of course) because,…

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Guest

57 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 8 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 8 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Mari

6 publications · 10 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 4 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Marian

7 publications · 9 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 4 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 14 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Rani Baker

5 publications · 3 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Media, rhetoric, and discourse.

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Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966 BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medical Center’s “gender identity clinic’ have been performing sex-change operations since July 1966.…

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Judith Butler addresses TERFs and the work of Sheila Jeffreys and Janice Raymond

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Judith Butler is a preeminent gender theorist and has played an extraordinarily influential role in shaping modern feminism. She’s written extensively on gender and her… Continue readingJudith Butler…

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TERFs are the new Westboro Baptist Church

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