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“Crossgender”: Precursor to Transgender?

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Source Summary

n further exploring how the evolution of the trans lexicon has brought us to this moment in linguistic history, I felt that it might be interesting to explore how a variant of the word ‘transgender’ was used. Both ‘transgender’ and ‘crossgender’ are semantically similar; both words connote a movement across gender. Since the first instance I’ve found of the uses of the word ‘transgender’ was in 1970* (in reference to a transsexual character in a movie [1, 2]) and the decade was closed out with none other than Christine Jorgensen rejecting the term ‘transsexual’ in favor of the term ‘trans-gender’ (3, 4, 5), I felt I would focus this article on how the term ‘crossgender’ was used in the 1970s. For those of you who aren’t as fascinated by the evolution of our terminology as I am, this will likely be a big snooze-fest. For those of you who are

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

““Crossgender”: Precursor to Transgender?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. 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 transgender identity and history. Published in 2011 by Cristan’s Research, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how healthcare and medicine was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

““Crossgender”: Precursor to Transgender?” 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 healthcare and medicine.

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
Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
25%
3
History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
18%
4
Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
16%
5
Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
16%
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
15%

Academic framing

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Clinical and medical analysis
100%
2
Historical analysis
86%
3
Psychological analysis
86%
4
Sociological analysis
32%

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Source topics

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Granular comparative context

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

This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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5 2004

11 2005

4 2006

90 2007

64 2008

47 2009

14 2010

130 2011

112 2012

241 2013

119 2014

28 2015

17 2016

40 2017

39 2018

15 2019

1 2020

4 2021

2 2024

1 2025

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Cristan

125 publications · 110 inbound sources/citations