Collective article record

1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience

Collective Archive Number CAN-0000-0293-F190 Permanent resolver

Source Summary

Transsexuals utilize the concepts of their own culture to construct their own transgender experience. – In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rights of Passage, 1987, Page 100

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience” may matter to community readers because it records a specific intervention in debates about transgender identity and history, with particular attention to culture, identity, and representation. The permanent record makes that intervention easier to locate and compare with other Collective coverage.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2011 at Cristan’s Research, “1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to culture, identity, and representation. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected in “1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience.” 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.

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
Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
15%
3
Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
7%

Academic framing

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Interpretive analysis
100%

Editorial function

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Granular comparative context

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 100

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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Documented circulation and reception

2 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 1 domain. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

2distinct source records documented

1distinct referring domains

0best available scholarly cited-by count

0books or volumes documented

2references retained by the source publication

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Source-held references2

Coverage of the evidence search

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Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026

Scholarly indexesChecked · August 31, 2026

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Public-web searchNotconfigured

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Reference retained by the source publicationSource-publication recordProvider-confirmed

Tracking Transgender: The Historical Truth | Ehipassiko

cristanwilliams.com

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Reference retained by the source publicationSource-publication recordProvider-confirmed

Ehipassiko » An Intro: “Transgender” During the 1990s

cristanwilliams.com

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Counts describe documented circulation and reception in the sources currently available to the Collective. They are not a score of quality, merit, popularity, or social value, and provider totals can overlap.

Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Cristan Williams

143 publications · 714 inbound sources/citations

Related authors in the Collective corpus

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.