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Demanding That We Forget is Transphobia

By Kat Transadvocate.com

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Source Summary

A comment by laughriotgirl on one of the threads at PHB wherein refusing to bend over and take gay transphobia is branded as homophobia: What bothers me Is that we are expected to just forget things happened That was in response to yet another attempt to exercise control over what trans people are allowed to remember in polite company: What has John Aravosis said recently that is offensive? If you can show me, I will bring it up with him. What has Elizabeth Birch said or done recently that is offensive? Well, I’ll be impolite and respond with a question: What has Ronald Reagan done to negatively affect air traffic safety lately? Literal answer: not much. Accurate answer that requires a working knowledge of history and the temerity to be willing to apply it: His union-busting shenanigans of thirty years ago are still being felt today in the form of

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Community significance

“Demanding That We Forget is Transphobia” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to history, archives, and memory, while also engaging law and civil rights. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning history, archives, and memory. Published in 2011 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how law and civil rights was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to history, archives, and memory and law and civil rights, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

Content analysis

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Themes

  1. 1
    History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
    100%
  2. 2
    Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    93%
  3. 3
    Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    73%
  4. 4
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    67%
  5. 5
    Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    20%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%

Policy framing

  1. 1100%

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CounterpointHistorical context

Source topics

Best of TAKatrina RosePolitics
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Law and civil rights
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Violence, safety, and dehumanization
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Transgender identity and history
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Community and organizing
History, archives, and memoryRank 1
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This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com211
  2. Cristan’s Research29
  3. The TERFs11

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Transgender identity and history211
  2. Community and organizing157
  3. Law and civil rights115
  4. Education and youth74
  5. Media, rhetoric, and discourse61
  6. Healthcare and medicine53
  7. Culture, identity, and representation52
  8. Science, evidence, and expertise52
  9. Labor, economics, and institutions46
  10. Violence, safety, and dehumanization43

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Historical analysis211
  2. Archival research63
  3. Interpretive analysis39
  4. Clinical and medical analysis39
  5. Psychological analysis33
  6. Media and discourse analysis31
  7. Qualitative and interview research31
  8. Critical theory28

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Civil rights and anti-discrimination42
  2. Elections and democratic governance36
  3. Public accommodations and facilities32
  4. Criminal justice and public safety22
  5. Research ethics and data governance19
  6. Administrative classification and identity documents9
  7. Housing and social services9
  8. Labor and employment policy8

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Article authors

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Kat

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Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.

Marti Abernathey

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Shares registered themes including Law and civil rights, Transgender identity and history, Family and relationships.

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