Why I Love Cross-Dressers
Photo by: Mariette Pathy Allen Readers of this Blog may remember a while back that I did a post called Why I Love Fat People. In simple 1-10 list form, it catalogued many of the reasons why I love Fat Folks. In this post, I am going to discuss why I love Cross-Dressers, primarily because I am incredibly sick of the Cross-Dresser bashing I have seen all over the Internet in recent months. 1. I love Cross-Dressers because I love the diversity of gender expression in the human population. People assigned male at birth who express themselves in a feminine manner on a part-time basis constitute one vital component of that gender diversity. it is just as valid as transsexualism, as drag kings and queens, as genderqueers, and as transgenderists. Those who casts aspersions on Cross-Dressers are devaluing a vital component of human diversity and gender expression. As someone who
The Source Summary reproduces the first 150 words of the source article unless a Collective editor has explicitly locked a replacement.
Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Why I Love Cross-Dressers” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging community and organizing. 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 transgender identity and history. Published in 2011 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how community and organizing was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and community and organizing, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship diagram distinguishes sub-themes, siblings, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community47%
- 3Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life28%
- 4Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community21%
- 5Technology, data, and platformsTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication17%
- 6Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict10%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing519
- Law and civil rights455
- Culture, identity, and representation305
- Education and youth288
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse247
- Healthcare and medicine229
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization226
- History, archives, and memory211
- Public policy and governance200
- Family and relationships186
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities170
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination161
- Criminal justice and public safety128
- Elections and democratic governance95
- Research ethics and data governance73
- Labor and employment policy51
- Housing and social services37
- Administrative classification and identity documents36
Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Cooke
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Dana.Taylor
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Cristan
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
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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