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My MTF daughter: An ordinary life with an extraordinary girl

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Source Summary

For some reason or another, my blog has become less personal over the last few years. I’ve shared stories, news, videos and pictures, but nothing that is really personal—from the uberscribbling heart—so to speak. That’s about to change. The uberscribbler is more than just an author, public speaker and social media junkie. There are more stories to share, things that need to be said, and thoughts that I need to send out to the universe via the world-wide web. And so with a deep breath… On Feb 9, 1998 I was in a delivery room at McMaster hospital in Hamilton. I was 26 weeks into pregnancy and wildly distraught that I was losing my baby. After a blur of white-coat activity, my second child came in to this world weighing 1121 grams. The celebration of life was announced to the room with three simple words. It’s a boy. 15 years

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“My MTF daughter: An ordinary life with an extraordinary girl” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to technology, data, and platforms, 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 technology, data, and platforms. Published in 2013 by Transadvocate.com, 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

“My MTF daughter: An ordinary life with an extraordinary girl” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with technology, data, and platforms. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for healthcare and medicine.

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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Technology, data, and platformsTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
100%
2
Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
92%
3
Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
67%
4
Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
58%
5
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
50%
6
Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
33%

Academic framing

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Clinical and medical analysis
100%
2
Historical analysis
75%

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Granular comparative context

How “Technology, data, and platforms” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

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3 2009

9 2011

2 2012

13 2013

8 2014

3 2015

3 2016

3 2017

6 2018

5 2019

1 2021

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Guest

57 publications · 87 inbound sources/citations

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Cristan Williams

319 publications · 3,580 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.