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1991: Transgender = Transsexual

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Source Summary

HAGERSTOWN (AP) – Four years ago, Debbie Reefer could not have played on a women’s softball team because she was a man. “I was a typical beer-drinking, head-busting type of guy,” said Keefer, the 41-year-old top pitcher on Hagerstown Junior College’s softball team. “That’s the best I can sum it up. I was tough and people knew it. But that was on the outside. I disguised my problem very well.” Surgery in May 1988 transformed Reefer’s body and her life, liberating her from 37 years of self-doubt and confusion. Discovering her real identity and making the decision to mold her body to her female soul did not come easily for the Franklin County, Pa. native. “I really felt that I was a bad person and something was terribly wrong with me,” she said. “As a grown man, I would cry myself to sleep.” The uncertainties persisted until the early 1980s

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“1991: Transgender = Transsexual” 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 2012 at Cristan’s Research, “1991: Transgender = Transsexual” 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

“1991: Transgender = Transsexual” 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
67%
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Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
44%
4
Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
22%
5
Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
8%

Academic framing

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Qualitative and interview research
100%

Editorial function

Source topics

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Granular comparative context

How “Transgender identity and history” 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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11 2005

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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