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Counting the Cost

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Source Summary

If my previous post seemed a little scattered and emotional, there’s a reason for it. The first trans community function I ever attended was a TDoR function, as was the first event I ever MCed outside a support group. I’ve been sensitive to transphobic violence at every step, and my own transition began with violence. But seeing the settings for it shift to schools was not something I was prepared for. At or around November 20th of every year, the transgender community commemorates a day of remembrance (TDoR) for transgender folk who have died as a result of transphobic or homophobic violence. Since that memorial, fifteen more homicides involving transgender victims have occurred: Sally (Salvador) Camatoy, Dubai, 19nov.07 Kellie Telesford, London, 21nov.07 Elly “Sayep” Susanna, Jakarta, nov07 (during a police raid) Gabriela Alejandra Albornoz, Santiago, Chile, 28dec07 Patrick Murphy, Albuquerque, NM, 08jan08 Stacy (Jarrell) Brown, Baltimore, 08jan08 Fedra, Kota Kinabalu,

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Counting the Cost” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging violence, safety, and dehumanization. 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 2008 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how violence, safety, and dehumanization was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and violence, safety, and dehumanization, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

Content analysis

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

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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
100%
2
Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
85%
3
Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
31%
4
Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
9%
5
History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
5%

Academic framing

1
Historical analysis
100%

Policy framing

1
Criminal justice and public safety
100%

Editorial function

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Granular comparative context

How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

Relative presence by year

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5 2004

11 2005

4 2006

90 2007

64 2008

47 2009

14 2010

130 2011

112 2012

240 2013

126 2014

33 2015

28 2016

50 2017

41 2018

15 2019

2 2020

4 2021

2 2024

1 2025

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Article authors

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Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations