User:Bellapatania/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Transgender inequality


 * Article Evaluation
 * The content is relevant to my topic of transgender rights in politics and how it influences society. Citations seem reliable and they have a plethora to choose from. The article tackles one of Wikipedia's equity gaps of the transgender community.

Sources

"Injustice at Every Turn: A Look at Black Respondents in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey" (PDF). National Black Justice Coalition. National Black Justice Coalition, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Retrieved 19 April 2015.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Trans bashing


 * Article Evaluation
 * The content is relevant to my topic of transgender rights in politics and how it influences society. Citations seem reliable and they have a plethora to choose from. The article tackles one of Wikipedia's equity gaps of the transgender community. The article does have a lot of theories though, which I am not entirely sure if that would be factual for my paper.


 * Sources
 * Maza, Carlos. "Debunking The Big Myth About Transgender-Inclusive Bathrooms". Media Matters for America. Archived from the original on 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2015-04-06.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Transgender rights


 * Article Evaluation
 * The content is relevant to my topic of transgender rights in politics and how it influences society. Citations seem reliable and they have a plethora to choose from. The article tackles one of Wikipedia's equity gaps of the transgender community and the history of rights. It does talk a lot about world history, which I am not sure if having that be apart of my paper is wise. I want to focus on the United States in general.


 * Sources
 * Winter, Sam; Conway, Lynn. "How many trans* people are there? A 2011 update incorporating new data". Archived from the original on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * LGBT people in prison


 * Article Evaluation
 * The content is relevant to my topic of transgender rights in politics and how it influences society, though it outlines specifically towards the LGBT community that are incarcerated. Citations seem reliable. This also relates to the rights of transgender people in prison and how they got there in the first place. Seems interesting to me, but very specific.


 * Sources
 * "Crimes of Hate, Conspiracy of Silence: Torture and Ill-treatment based on Sexual Identity". Amnesty International. Retrieved 2008-12-28.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Transgender rights movement


 * Article Evaluation
 * The content is relevant to my topic of transgender rights in politics and how it influences society. Citations seem reliable and they have a plethora to choose from. The article tackles one of Wikipedia's equity gaps of the transgender community. I like this article because it has history of oppression and how it's affecting society and that specific community. A lot of good information here.


 * Sources
 * "Transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people #WontBeErased by pseudoscience". October 26, 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2020.