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On Free Speech, No-Platforming, and the Media’s “Transgender Debate”

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While it’s well and good to call out those who denigrate trans people in the media, it’s time to take it a step further. Making Money with […]

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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 3 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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  1. Transadvocate.com840
  2. Cristan’s Research83
  3. The TERFs52

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  1. Community and organizing469
  2. Law and civil rights424
  3. Education and youth273
  4. Culture, identity, and representation270
  5. Media, rhetoric, and discourse218
  6. History, archives, and memory214
  7. Violence, safety, and dehumanization213
  8. Healthcare and medicine197
  9. Public policy and governance181
  10. Feminism and gender politics178

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  2. Historical analysis278
  3. Clinical and medical analysis165
  4. Psychological analysis138
  5. Qualitative and interview research112
  6. Media and discourse analysis103
  7. Critical theory72
  8. Empirical and quantitative research62

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  1. Public accommodations and facilities170
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination160
  3. Criminal justice and public safety119
  4. Elections and democratic governance94
  5. Research ethics and data governance71
  6. Labor and employment policy39
  7. Housing and social services38
  8. Administrative classification and identity documents35

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Collective citation

TransAdvocate UK: Media hysteria about trans people

Cristan Williams · July 12, 2018

This comes at a time when the “debate” over trans rights in the UK is front and center in the TERF friendly UK press. The transphobic rhetoric centers over access to, quote, “women’s only spaces” end quote. However, the GRA does not even deal with public accommodation. Public accommodations for…

Collective citation

The Politics of Transphobia

Cristan Williams · August 18, 2016

While Republican delegates dutifully cheered their presidential nominee for promising to keep queer citizens of the US safe from ideological marauders and GOP convention speaker Peter Thiel was booed by North Carolina delegates for calling the “great [transgender bathroom] debate” a distraction from America’s real problems, a trans schoolboy had…

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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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