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1978: Transgenderal = Full-Time, Non-Op

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Source Summary

Archives of SexualBehavior, VoL 7, No. 4, 1978 Open Forum John Money, Ph.D., Moderator The Johns Hopkins University, Schoo] of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland 21205 Before becoming involved in the sex role area, I was a linguist. I would like to share three comments on methodology in regard to the whole question of gender and sex. One of the first things that you learn when you enter the gay world is that we have more vocabulary for gender than the straight world has. There is a psycholinguistic principle that says cultures invent a vocabulary to deal with the phenomena that are important to them. It seems to me that you make the assumption that you know what male and female are, and you will never look at that assumption. In dealing with gay people and getting gayness associated with a medical model and psychological problems, you set back the civil liberties

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Community significance

“1978: Transgenderal = Full-Time, Non-Op” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to healthcare and medicine, while also engaging transgender identity and history. 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, “1978: Transgenderal = Full-Time, Non-Op” provides dated evidence of how healthcare and medicine was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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“1978: Transgenderal = Full-Time, Non-Op” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with healthcare and medicine. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for transgender identity and history.

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Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
100%
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
47%
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Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
42%
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Sex and gender classificationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
21%
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
21%

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Psychological analysis
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Clinical and medical analysis
92%

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How “Healthcare and medicine” 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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Cristan

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