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Meta Analysis: Social Anxiety Levels in MTF Transgender People

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Source Summary

Comparison of anxiety Of the two studies that I reviewed which quantify this issue a 55% average was found. Within the general American population, similar types of anxiety are experienced by only 6.8% of the population. While this is not a perfect comparison, it does speak to a disparity of experiences. This graph compares the social anxiety transgender people feel within the context of a cisgender social situation against levels of social anxiety within the general American population. The National Institute of Health defines Social Anxiety Disorder as a, “Social phobia… characterized by a persistent, intense, and chronic fear of being watched and judged by others and feeling embarrassed or humiliated by their actions. This fear may be so severe that it interferes with work, school, and other activities and may negatively affect the person’s ability to form relationships.” While this comparison is somewhat imperfect in that it is not

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Meta Analysis: Social Anxiety Levels in MTF Transgender People” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging law and civil rights. 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, “Meta Analysis: Social Anxiety Levels in MTF Transgender People” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to law and civil rights. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is labor and employment policy and housing and social services. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and law and civil rights, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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

1
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
100%
2
Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
31%
3
Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
21%
4
Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
17%
5
Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
13%
6
Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
13%

Academic framing

1
Interpretive analysis
100%
2
Public-health analysis
89%
3
Empirical and quantitative research
33%

Policy framing

1
Labor and employment policy
100%
2
Housing and social services
75%

Editorial function

Source topics

Relationship key

Separate but related themes

The diagram distinguishes hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes inferred within this article. It does not assert that all themes are mutually exclusive.

These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.

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

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

Presence by member publication

Frequently co-occurring concepts

Academic framings in this topic

Policy framings in this topic

Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.

Inbound-link and citation evidence

Documented circulation and reception

The documented sources span 1 domain; the strongest available scholarly index reports 112 citing works. The dated evidence currently spans 2006–2025. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

100distinct source records documented

1distinct referring domains

112best available scholarly cited-by count

0books or volumes documented

0references retained by the source publication

2006–2025observed years in dated evidence

Evidence by channel

Independent counts; bars are not additive

Scholarly citing works112

Coverage of the evidence search

Shows what has actually been checked

Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026

Scholarly indexesChecked · August 31, 2026

112

Book and volume searchNotchecked

Public-web searchNotconfigured

Collective corpus linksIndexed · August 31, 2026

110 Crossref112 OpenCitations

Review scholarly results Review book results Review public-web results

Documented references over time

Yearly scholarly series: OpenCitations, combined with dated non-scholarly evidence

2 2006

1 2007

1 2008

1 2009

3 2010

2 2011

1 2012

6 2013

7 2014

8 2015

12 2016

6 2017

10 2018

7 2019

6 2020

7 2021

4 2022

8 2023

3 2024

4 2025