Collective article record

1991: Transgender = Transsexual

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Source Summary

HAGERSTOWN (AP) – Four years ago, Debbie Reefer could not have played on a women’s softball team because she was a man. “I was a typical beer-drinking, head-busting type of guy,” said Keefer, the 41-year-old top pitcher on Hagerstown Junior College’s softball team. “That’s the best I can sum it up. I was tough and people knew it. But that was on the outside. I disguised my problem very well.” Surgery in May 1988 transformed Reefer’s body and her life, liberating her from 37 years of self-doubt and confusion. Discovering her real identity and making the decision to mold her body to her female soul did not come easily for the Franklin County, Pa. native. “I really felt that I was a bad person and something was terribly wrong with me,” she said. “As a grown man, I would cry myself to sleep.” The uncertainties persisted until the early 1980s

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“1991: Transgender = Transsexual” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging education and youth. 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, “1991: Transgender = Transsexual” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to education and youth. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

“1991: Transgender = Transsexual” 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 education and youth.

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
Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
67%
3
Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
44%
4
Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
22%
5
Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
8%

Academic framing

1
Qualitative and interview research
100%

Editorial function

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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.

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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Documented circulation and reception

1 source-held reference records an early link or citation; 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.

1distinct source records documented

1distinct referring domains

0best available scholarly cited-by count

0books or volumes documented

1references retained by the source publication

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Source-held references1

Coverage of the evidence search

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Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026

Scholarly indexesChecked · August 31, 2026

Book and volume searchNotchecked

Public-web searchNotconfigured

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Reference retained by the source publicationSource-publication recordProvider-confirmed

Transgender Timeline | Ehipassiko

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.