“Crossgender”: Precursor to Transgender?
n further exploring how the evolution of the trans lexicon has brought us to this moment in linguistic history, I felt that it might be interesting to explore how a variant of the word ‘transgender’ was used. Both ‘transgender’ and ‘crossgender’ are semantically similar; both words connote a movement across gender. Since the first instance I’ve found of the uses of the word ‘transgender’ was in 1970* (in reference to a transsexual character in a movie ) and the decade was closed out with none other than Christine Jorgensen rejecting the term ‘transsexual’ in favor of the term ‘trans-gender’ (3, 4, 5), I felt I would focus this article on how the term ‘crossgender’ was used in the 1970s. For those of you who aren’t as fascinated by the evolution of our terminology as I am, this will likely be a big snooze-fest. For those of you who are interested
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
““Crossgender”: Precursor to Transgender?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. 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 2011 by Cristan’s Research, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how healthcare and medicine was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
““Crossgender”: Precursor to Transgender?” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for healthcare and medicine.
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
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life25%
- 3History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication18%
- 4Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication16%
- 5Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life16%
- 6Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community15%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 286%
- 386%
- 432%
Editorial function
Source topics
- Separate but related themes
- Related theme in the same family
These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.
How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing531
- Law and civil rights468
- Culture, identity, and representation320
- Education and youth308
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
- Healthcare and medicine248
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
- History, archives, and memory216
- Public policy and governance206
- Feminism and gender politics198
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities177
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
- Criminal justice and public safety131
- Elections and democratic governance100
- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
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Documented circulation and reception
No broad reception evidence has been documented yet; this may reflect unconfigured or incomplete indexes rather than an absence of circulation. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
Evidence by channel
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Coverage of the evidence search
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Author profiles and related researchers
Related authors in the Collective corpus
Cristan Williams
Connected through 8 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Mari
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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