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ABC’s Primetime Nightline Focusing On Trans Kids Tomorrow

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Tomorrow’ ABC will broadcast a Primetime Nightline segment starting at 10 PM EDT/9 PM CDT that will focus on transkids. The segment will focus on ‘Princess Boy’ Dyson Kilodavis, Germany’s Kim Petras, who started her transition at age 10 and is believed to have been the youngest person ever at age 16 to receive SRS surgery , ten year old Jackie in Ohio and 19 year old New Yorker Vanessa. It will also have on it Charles Kane, the poster boy for detransition and critic of early transitions. While I felt they could have done this segment with having him on it, the notepad will be in hand to check out the broadcast. cross-posted from Transgriot

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“ABC’s Primetime Nightline Focusing On Trans Kids Tomorrow” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to healthcare and medicine, while also engaging transgender identity and history. 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 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “ABC’s Primetime Nightline Focusing On Trans Kids Tomorrow” provides dated evidence of how healthcare and medicine was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected in “ABC’s Primetime Nightline Focusing On Trans Kids Tomorrow.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of healthcare and medicine may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

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    Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Healthcare and medicine to Transgender identity and history: Separate but related
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This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

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Cristan Williams

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.

Gwen Smith

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.

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Contextual research path

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Overview

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Case Study

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1988: Transgender = Transsexual

Provides a contextually related perspective from elsewhere in the Collective.

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