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1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience

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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

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience” 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, “1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience” 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 “1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience.” 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
    15%
  3. 3
    Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    7%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%

Editorial function

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: Related theme in the same family
Culture, identity, and representation
Transgender identity and history to Law and civil rights: Separate but related
Law and civil rights
Transgender identity and historyRank 1
Relationship key
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  • 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.

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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

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Inbound-link and citation evidence

Documented circulation and reception

2 source-held references record early links or citations; 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.

2distinct source records documented
1distinct referring domains
0best available scholarly cited-by count
0books or volumes documented
2references retained by the source publication
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Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026
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Scholarly indexesChecked · August 31, 2026
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Collective corpus linksIndexed · August 31, 2026
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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

1981: Transgender Identity

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

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

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0285-B6D6
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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Counterpoint

1995: Transgender = Umbrella Term

Offers a critical, contrasting, or corrective interpretation of the shared issue.

Cedar Rapids Gazette, 10/11/1995, Page 1 Iowa City approves state’s 1st transgender protection By Brad Hahn News correspondent IOWA CITY — Iowa City will be the first city…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0014-EB31
Related academic framing

Neil Patrick Harris Sounds Like A Transphobe

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

I was alerted to a transphobic statement from Neil Patrick Harris. Trans Femmergy posted Neil Patrick Harris: I’ve never sounded more like a tranny in my life. She…

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