Glossary
Terms, concepts, and acronyms used by our authors in their transgender discourse. Words in bold are glossy terms. Suggested citation: Glossary. TransAdvocate. (2014, March 15). Retrieved [current_date format=’F d, Y’], from https://www.transadvocate.com/glossary. 1st Wave: Feminism from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, which tended to focus on women’s suffrage. Racism was a significant issue and genderqueer individuals were shut out of the movement. 2nd Wave: Feminism from around 1945 – 1980. This wave of feminism was focused on Women’s Liberation. To the dismay of intersectional 2nd Wave feminists, privilege-blind optics became a problem within 2nd wave feminist discourse. At this time, Janice Raymond’s Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male gained some measure of favor. 3rd Wave: Feminism from around 1980 – 2010. Focused on addressing the exclusionary practices of previous feminist waves. Sandy Stone, a trans woman, and victim of Janice Raymond’s harassment published The Empire Strikes Back, which
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
“Glossary” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging transgender identity and history. 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 feminism and gender politics. Published in 2014 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities and civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to feminism and gender politics and transgender identity and history, 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 key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community77%
- 3Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication47%
- 4Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict47%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community31%
- 6Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community23%
Academic framing
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- 252%
- 343%
- 424%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 244%
Editorial function
Source topics
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- Separate but related themes
- Related theme in the same family
These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.
How “Feminism and gender politics” 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 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history198
- Community and organizing165
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization117
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse80
- Law and civil rights74
- Culture, identity, and representation73
- Education and youth58
- Healthcare and medicine55
- History, archives, and memory44
- Science, evidence, and expertise37
Academic framings in this topic
Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.
Documented circulation and reception
3 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 4 distinct domains; the strongest available scholarly index reports 361 citing works. The dated evidence currently spans 2012–2026. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
Evidence by channel
Independent counts; bars are not additiveCoverage of the evidence search
Shows what has actually been checkedDocumented references over time
Yearly scholarly series: OpenCitations, combined with dated non-scholarly evidenceProof: The Facts of Life vs the Cisgender Debate
The TransAdvocate Glossary defines Cisgender Media (cis media) as:
A Cotton Ceiling Conspiracy Rebranding: Super Straight
Definitions for the terms used in this article are available via our Glossary.
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