transgender

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/23/2023
  

  How to Fight Back Against the Right's "Parents' Rights" Moral Panic

  by Jennifer Berkshire

  Parents' fears about losing control over their children have been the raw material for potent politically-motivated moral panics for a century and more. But those panics aren't irresistible, because parents everywhere still value public schools as democratic community institutions.  

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  3/23/2023
  

  Trans Texans, Fearing Violence Inspired by Legislation and Rhetoric, Look to Armed Self-Defense

  Supporters of gender-related legislation deny that they want to eradicate transgender Texans, but members of that community fear that political rhetoric suggesting they are child abusers will encourage vigilantes who are already staging armed protest at LGBTQ events. Like other Texans, many are arming themselves. 

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• SOURCE: Parapraxis
  2/6/2023
  

  Deconstructing "The Child"

  by Jules Gill-Peterson

  Since the Victorian era, Anglo-American conceptions of childhood have worked ideologically to place children at risk of harm through the justifying idea of love, and hide the reality that only a tiny percentage of young people experience youth as protected, secure, and nurtured. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  12/9/2022
  

  Are Conservative Courts Giving Professors a Right to Mistreat Transgender Students?

  by Andrew Koppelman

  Under the guise of an expansive view of "religious freedom," courts are enshrining the ability of professors to engage in discriminatory conduct. 

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• SOURCE: The Forum
  11/30/2022
  

  Reactionary Media are Fueling Anti-LGBTQ Violence

  by Ben Miller

  When the media give a platform to the idea that trans people living in public inherently encourages sexual abuse, violence aimed at removing them from the public will follow. The media need to take responsibility for Colorado Springs and call out icitement to violence. 

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• SOURCE: The Revealer
  10/6/2022
  

  "For We Were Strangers": Trans Refugees and Moral Panics

  by Gillian Frank

  Trans Americans will be increasingly compelled to flee states where laws repress them. What does this refugee crisis share with the past experiences of queer people migrating in search of safety and sexual freedom or women crossing state lines to access abortion? 

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  6/24/2022
  

  Historians Documenting the Lives of Transgender People

  Historians like Jules Gill-Peterson argues that the history of transgender people is often hiding in plain sight, and contains as many moments of joy as of discrimination or misunderstanding. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/24/2022
  

  School Privatizers are Carrying the Culture War Banner

  Moral panics are proving useful for a right-wing agenda of undermining public trust in public education; America's oligarchs are stoking them, argues a school social worker. 

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• 4/24/2022
  

  "Two-Spirit" Visibility and the Year Activists Rewrote History

  by Gregory D. Smithers

  In 1990, a group of Native activists coined the term "Two-Spirits" to encompass a variety of people who embodied masculine and feminine traits in indigenous communities, replacing colonizers' terminology that emphasized shame or deviance. Marginalized communities change their history by changing who tells their story, and how. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/21/2022
  

  Visible Activism Key to Protecting Trans People From Discriminatory Laws

  by Shay Ryan Olmstead

  The legal strategies that LGBT groups have used to defend their rights and dignity in society may be less effective with hard-right judges on the bench. Direct action and activism outside the courts will be needed to make sure that the right doesn't use the law to target trans people for political gain. 

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• 4/12/2022
  

  The Right's Political Attack on LGBTQ Americans Escalates

  Historians discuss the escalating attacks on LGBTQ Americans. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/7/2022
  

  Disney Controversy Puts Right-Wing Children's Entertainment Industry in Spotlight

  by Nicole Hemmer

  A growing array of conservative children’s literature and programming coincides with right-wing attacks on schools and children’s entertainment that conservatives claim are sites of political and sexual indoctrination.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/4/2022
  

  While "Anti-Grooming" Rhetoric Seems to Come from the Fringe, it Can be Influential

  by Mical Raz and Paul M. Renfro

  The latest culture war battle revives historical efforts to use the law to institutionalize the slander that LGBTQ people pose an inherent danger to children and families. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  3/23/2022
  

  Caught on Tape: North Texas School Superintendent Orders Removal of Transgender, LGBTQ Themed Books

  "[Superintendent Jeremy Glenn] noted that members of Granbury’s school board — his bosses — were also very conservative. And to any school employees who might have different political beliefs, Glenn said, 'You better hide it'."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/11/2022
  

  Texas's Anti-Transgender Policies Erase the State's Indigenous Transgender History

  by Gregory D. Smithers

  The prominent role of what would now be called transgender individuals in indigenous societies in Texas was part of the justification Europeans claimed to colonize the land; students compelled to learn Texas history in school could learn a much more inclusive set of stories. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/11/2022
  

  Targeting the Marginalized for Political Gain is Nothing New in Texas Politics

  by Nancy Beck Young

  Minority groups have often had a perilous existence in Texas, but that hasn't stopped politicians from attacking them as dire threats to the state's moral fabric. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  2/24/2022
  

  We, The Abuser State

  by Jules Gill-Peterson

  Texas's announcement of a policy defining some support for transgender youth as "child abuse" echoes the abuses of colonial authorities on gendered minority groups. 

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• 10/3/2021
  

  How Evangelical Conversion Narratives Feed the "Free Choice" Rhetoric at Your School Board Meeting

  by Rebecca L. Davis

  Evangelical Christianity grew in America by emphasizing the power of individual conversion as a "choice for Christ." This frame explains not only the prominence of Evangelicals among anti-mask and anti-vaccine protesters, but also the frequent rhetorical connections they make between COVID policy and LGBTQ tolerance. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/6/2021
  

  Who Lost the Feminist Movement's "Sex Wars"?

  by Amia Srinivasan

  As a new book reconsiders the debates among feminists over sexuality and pornography by emphasizing the role of liberalism in reducing the radical demands both sides made for the remaking of relations between men and women to narrow issues of law and civil liberties, that history resonates with current controversies about the place of trans women in the feminist movement.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/10/2021
  

  Anti-Trans Legislation has Never been about Protecting Children

  by Nikita Shepard

  "Tracing the ugly history of conservative efforts to combat school desegregation, welfare, reproductive freedom and gay and lesbian rights by claiming threats to children helps us understand why politicians today think they can gain votes by brutalizing vulnerable children in the name of protecting them."