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1989: Tribute to Christine Jorgensen

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Source Summary

1989: TV-TS Tapestry, Issue 54 She must have seen many changes since that day in 1952 when the headlines blared “GI Becomes Blonde Bombshell”, as have we all. Certainly, she, and we, saw the day pass when a specific ethnic ancestry was an SRS requirement, and we’re doubtlessly moving – albeit too slowly – towards the time when Black, Hispanic, or Native American ancestry is never an impediment. No doubt about it, we and Christine alike saw sex change operations become a routine medical procedure (though sometimes still mistakenly called experimental). She saw a whole school of scientific thought grow up around her personality; and a generation of TSs with surprisingly similar personalities and life histories undergoing sex changes. She also lived to see that school of thought shattered, and the basis for which she and so many others were granted SRS fall into disfavor. Christine will be missed by

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Community significance

“1989: Tribute to Christine Jorgensen” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to education and youth, 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, “1989: Tribute to Christine Jorgensen” provides dated evidence of how education and youth 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 civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to education and youth 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

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Themes

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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
100%
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
75%
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Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
75%
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Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
50%
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
25%
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Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
25%

Academic framing

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Clinical and medical analysis
100%

Policy framing

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Civil rights and anti-discrimination
100%

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How “Education and youth” 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.

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27 2011

36 2012

107 2013

53 2014

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28 2018

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Cristan

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