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I Am The Transsexual Your Boyfriend Wants to Be With: On Thought Catalog’s Transphobia Problem

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Source Summary

I wake up, like any other woman, run my fingers through my long, bed-head hair, wishing I could stay asleep, and go to pour some cereal and coffee for breakfast. I decided to check my Twitter and my Facebook page, and in my feed, I see a Thought Catalog post that looks interesting. I click, I read, I find a little bit of inspiration. This has been a fairly accurate description of many mornings that I have spent before school or work, containing incredibly mundane experiences that even excluding my perspective as that as a woman are entirely relatable to more or less anyone reading them. That is why I was shocked to stumble across the piece published by Thought Catalog entitled “I Think My Boyfriend Wants To Be With A Transsexual” In which the author (who was brave enough to hide behind a veil of anonymity) takes pride in

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“I Am The Transsexual Your Boyfriend Wants to Be With: On Thought Catalog’s Transphobia Problem” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging education and youth. 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 2013 at Transadvocate.com, “I Am The Transsexual Your Boyfriend Wants to Be With: On Thought Catalog’s Transphobia Problem” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to education and youth. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

“I Am The Transsexual Your Boyfriend Wants to Be With: On Thought Catalog’s Transphobia Problem” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for education and youth.

Content analysis

Ranked themes and framings

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Themes

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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
100%
2
Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
21%
3
Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
18%
4
Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
11%
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Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
8%

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Interpretive analysis
100%

Editorial function

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Granular comparative context

How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

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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

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Guest

57 publications · 87 inbound sources/citations

Related authors in the Collective corpus

Cristan Williams

319 publications · 3,580 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.