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1981: Transgender Identity

By Cristan Williams Cristan’s Research

Collective Archive Number CAN-0000-0285-B6D6 Permanent resolver
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Source Summary

A disturbed peace: selected writings of an Irish Catholic homosexual, 1981 Surely she was there to make people comfortable with transgender identity. – Page 28

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“1981: Transgender Identity” may matter to community readers because it records a specific intervention in debates about transgender identity and history, with particular attention to culture, identity, and representation. The permanent record makes that intervention easier to locate and compare with other Collective coverage.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2011 at Cristan’s Research, “1981: Transgender Identity” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to culture, identity, and representation. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected in “1981: Transgender Identity.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of transgender identity and history may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

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. 1
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    100%
  2. 2
    Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    67%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%

Editorial function

Related perspective

Source topics

1980sTerminologyTransgender
Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Transgender identity and history to Culture, identity, and representation: Overlapping sibling theme
Culture, identity, and representation
Transgender identity and historyRank 1
Relationship key
  • Overlapping 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.

This article appeared 2 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

Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com880
  2. Cristan’s Research84
  3. The TERFs55

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Community and organizing531
  2. Law and civil rights468
  3. Culture, identity, and representation320
  4. Education and youth308
  5. Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
  6. Healthcare and medicine248
  7. Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
  8. History, archives, and memory216
  9. Public policy and governance206
  10. Feminism and gender politics198

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Interpretive analysis442
  2. Historical analysis290
  3. Clinical and medical analysis210
  4. Psychological analysis168
  5. Qualitative and interview research120
  6. Media and discourse analysis109
  7. Critical theory90
  8. Empirical and quantitative research78

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Public accommodations and facilities177
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
  3. Criminal justice and public safety131
  4. Elections and democratic governance100
  5. Research ethics and data governance78
  6. Labor and employment policy52
  7. Administrative classification and identity documents39
  8. Housing and social services38

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

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
—observed years in dated evidence

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Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026
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Scholarly indexesChecked · August 31, 2026
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Book and volume searchNotchecked
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Public-web searchNotconfigured
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Collective corpus linksIndexed · August 31, 2026
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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

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.

Admin

98 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

Mari

6 publications · 80 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 89 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

TransAdvocate Staff

11 publications · 2 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

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.

Contextual research path

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Related academic framing

1988: Transgender Roles, Gender Variance

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

While cross-cultural transgender roles such as the Berdache have encountered a resurgence of interest, little anthropological attention has been paid to Western gender variance or to the closely…

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Related academic framing

1982: Transgenders = Transsexuals, Christine Jorgensen

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

Appeal-Democrat, Tuesday, May 11, 1982, p. A-10 Associated Press Article, 1982 ‘Transgender’ FRESNO (AP)—Christine Jorgensen says her highly publicized sex change operation three decades age gave her the…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0225-EFFB
Related academic framing

1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

Transsexuals utilize the concepts of their own culture to construct their own transgender experience. – In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rights of Passage, 1987, Page 100

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0293-F190
Evidence and documentation

My Gender Identity Is In Order

Adds research, documentation, or primary-source context.

This Collective article record was generated from public information supplied by or discovered on the member publication. Editors may revise the record directly; the source text itself remains…

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-1299-D457