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1989: Texas T-Party Keynote Address

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Source Summary

[box]What follows is a speech given by Wendi Danielle Pierce at the 1989 Texas T-Party held in San Antonio. Pierce was the chairperson of the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) Board of Directors, and – at the time of this address – had just undergone SRS with Dr. Biber in Trinidad, Colorado.[/box] Good evening. I would first like to thank you for asking me to speed before this very impressive assemblage. Through events like this one, we all get a chance to crow a little and share our ideas, views and dreams. We are only here fora brief period of time and in the last few yeas I have come to realize that time is a precious commodity. We spend so much of our lives hoping that moments and events will someday happen, or that we will someday be in a situation or position, and we lose sight of

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“1989: Texas T-Party Keynote Address” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to education and youth, while also engaging community and organizing. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning education and youth. Published in 2012 by Cristan’s Research, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how community and organizing was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is family law and child welfare. It links that institutional frame to education and youth and community and organizing, 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

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Themes

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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
100%
2
Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
94%
3
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
88%
4
Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
24%
5
History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
18%

Academic framing

Policy framing

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Family law and child welfare
100%

Editorial function

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Granular comparative context

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.

Relative presence by year

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5 2005

8 2006

16 2007

16 2008

12 2009

3 2010

27 2011

36 2012

107 2013

54 2014

14 2015

10 2016

30 2017

30 2018

3 2019

2 2020

1 2022

1 2024

2 2025

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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

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Source-held references1

Coverage of the evidence search

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Publisher-held referencesChecked · July 18, 2026

Scholarly indexesChecked · July 18, 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

Cristan Williams

143 publications · 700 inbound sources/citations

Related authors in the Collective corpus

Cristan Williams

319 publications · 3,523 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.