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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Do you have any resources you can point me to to show the switch being flipped and the timeline it happened on? I'm very interested in this from a historical perspective and a legal perspective, and really a historical legal perspective. There have been so many code switches that people have whiplash and don't remember it wasn't always this way.

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There's a UK professor who has done a lot of work on showing how LGB funding and organizations has been subsumed by the T. He includes charts. If I find his name and work I will post it.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Awesome thanks!!

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

OK, the UK professor's name is Michael Biggs. Biggs has done invaluable work showing how the LGBT organizations focus has changed from gays to transgenders, including very informative charts.

He includes Stonewall, GLAAD, HRC, etc. You will be shocked at how the T have taken become the main focus of LGBT orgs.

I don't know how to link so please type "Michael Biggs" and "LGBT FACTS AND FIGURES" into a search engine. Pls let me know if that doesn't work.

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I haven't found the UK professor yet but I will look tonight.

I did find the title of the NEW YORK TIMES article and have posted further down on this thread. It's "Once a Pariah, Now a Judge: The Early Transgender Journey of Phyllis Frye" and the author's name is Deborah Sontag. Type that into a browser and the article should come up.

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Not really, no, not least of which because beyond certain circles nobody dares speak of it. Maybe others have opinion articles that bothered to cite examples but I don't think I've ever seen a chart. I can only relate what I believe I saw, I fear, until someone knuckles down and does something rigorous. Or has the energy to. I fear I do not.