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1984: State of Trans Terms

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Source Summary

‘Transvestite/Transsexual (TV/TS) Community’ includes everyone who identifies with any of the following words: ‘transvestite’, ‘cross-dresser’, ‘transgender’, ‘transsexual’, ‘drag queen’, ‘femiphile’, or ‘androgyne’. It is an identifiable group of people within society as a whole. Because of the great amounts of heartburn some people have with the word ‘transvestite’, there is a movement afoot to replace ‘TV/TS’ with ‘CD/TS/AN’. Even though ‘CD/TS/AN’ applies to exactly the same group as ‘TV/TS’, a number of semantics zealots seem to think some great problem will be solves. Who knows – if enough people figure out what ‘CD’ and ‘AN’ mean, they may be right. Of course, if ‘CD’ means the act of cross-dressing and includes anyone who cross-dresses for whatever reasons, then ‘TS’ and ‘AN’ would be redundant. Then again, if ‘CD’ alone is unacceptable, and ‘CD/TS/AN’ is better that ‘TV/TS’, wouldn’t ‘TV/CD/TG/TS/QD/FP/AN’ be better still? Personally, I think ‘TV/TS Community’ is sufficient. The

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“1984: State of Trans Terms” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging community and organizing. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2012 at Cristan’s Research, “1984: State of Trans Terms” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to community and organizing. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected in “1984: State of Trans Terms.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of transgender identity and history may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
89%
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
22%

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Interpretive analysis
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Granular comparative context

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

This article appeared 1 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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240 2013

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Cristan Williams

143 publications · 714 inbound sources/citations

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Cristan Williams

319 publications · 3,580 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 8 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.