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The relationship between Cathy Brennan and the SPLC

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In late November of last year, Secular Woman began a petition asking the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to list Cathy Brennan’s Gender Identity Watch […]

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

This article may be important to community memory because it documents experiences, arguments, or organizing connected to transgender identity and history and makes that material easier to locate alongside related records.

Historical significance

As a dated publication record, this article provides evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at the time it appeared and can be compared with earlier and later Collective coverage.

Policy significance

This article may illuminate policy consequences by connecting transgender identity and history to criminal justice and public safety. The classification is inferred from the article text and remains editable by Collective editors.

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Granular comparative context

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

This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

Relative presence by year

Peak year indexed to 100

Presence by member publication

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

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  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

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Interpretive analysis442
  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

Policy framings in this topic

  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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M.A.Melby

Cristan Williams · March 8, 2014

The relationship between Cathy Brennan and the SPLC

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Marian

7 publications · 9 inbound sources/citations

Related authors in the Collective corpus

Cristan Williams

324 publications · 3,096 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 5 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization, Science, evidence, and expertise.

Cooke

6 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization, Science, evidence, and expertise.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization, Science, evidence, and expertise.

TransAdvocate Staff

11 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization, Science, evidence, and expertise.

Admin

112 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization, Science, evidence, and expertise.

Cristan

125 publications · 110 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Violence, safety, and dehumanization, Science, evidence, and expertise.

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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Policy implications

The TERFs Are Becoming Restless.

Examines legal, institutional, or policy consequences connected to the shared theme.

Hate is a weird thing. There are clear stages it goes through during its lifetime, from ridicule and baseless claims to anger and violence. Many… Continue readingThe TERFs…

The TERFsCAN-0000-0262-C87B
Related academic framing

1995: Transgender = Umbrella Term

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

Cedar Rapids Gazette, 10/11/1995, Page 1 Iowa City approves state’s 1st transgender protection By Brad Hahn News correspondent IOWA CITY — Iowa City will be the first city…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0014-EB31
Related academic framing

1988: Transgender = Transsexual

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith, and Love by Brian McNaught, 1988, page 28

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0004-F8D3
Related academic framing

1984: State of Trans Terms

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

‘Transvestite/Transsexual (TV/TS) Community’ includes everyone who identifies with any of the following words: ‘transvestite’, ‘cross-dresser’, ‘transgender’, ‘transsexual’, ‘drag queen’, ‘femiphile’, or ‘androgyne’. It is an identifiable group of…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0158-817A