Take the Trans “Sense of Community” Survey!
Take the survey here For some time, I’ve seen and heard subjective assertions like: I love the trans community! I hate the trans community! There is no such thing as a trans community! I wish the trans community was stronger where I live! So… Is there a trans community? Strangely, quantitative research complementing existing ethnographic research concerning this question is hard to come by. The results of this research will map where (and possibly why) the trans population detects and therefore perceives a community of trans folk and where (and possibly why) it does not. A lot of interesting correlations can be drawn once the data collection is complete: Do the respondents detect and therefore perceive there to be community among the overall trans population and if so, to what degree does this exist – and, perhaps most interestingly -where does this sense of community thrive? Is a sense of
The Source Summary reproduces the first 150 words of the source article unless a Collective editor has explicitly locked a replacement.
Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Take the Trans “Sense of Community” Survey!” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to community and organizing, while also engaging science, evidence, and expertise. 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 community and organizing. Published in 2013 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how science, evidence, and expertise was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is research ethics and data governance. It links that institutional frame to community and organizing and science, evidence, and expertise, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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
- 1Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication60%
- 3Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community58%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 28%
- 35%
- 45%
Policy framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
- Separate but related themes
- Overlapping themes
These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.
How “Community and organizing” appears across the Collective corpus
This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history531
- Law and civil rights300
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization187
- Education and youth177
- Culture, identity, and representation174
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse171
- Feminism and gender politics165
- History, archives, and memory158
- Public policy and governance132
- Labor, economics, and institutions124
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination122
- Public accommodations and facilities104
- Criminal justice and public safety82
- Elections and democratic governance70
- Research ethics and data governance51
- Housing and social services25
- Administrative classification and identity documents23
- Labor and employment policy22
Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.
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
Independent counts; bars are not additiveNo channel totals are available yet.
Coverage of the evidence search
Shows what has actually been checkedNo individual references have been stored yet. This can mean that source-held pingbacks have not been imported, provider access is not configured, or available indexes do not expose this work in a machine-readable form.
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.
Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Guest
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Rani Baker
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Kelley Winters
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
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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