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Trans Etiquette: When is a Compliment Not a Compliment?

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By Matt Kailey It’s not tough to compliment trans people. Like anyone else, we like to be told that we look nice, or that you […]

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

This article may be important to community memory because it documents experiences, arguments, or organizing connected to transgender identity and history and makes that material easier to locate alongside related records.

Historical significance

As a dated publication record, this article provides evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at the time it appeared and can be compared with earlier and later Collective coverage.

Policy significance

This article may illuminate policy consequences by connecting transgender identity and history to administrative classification and identity documents. The classification is inferred from the article text and remains editable by Collective editors.

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Granular comparative context

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

This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

Relative presence by year

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Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com840
  2. Cristan’s Research83
  3. The TERFs52

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Community and organizing469
  2. Law and civil rights424
  3. Education and youth273
  4. Culture, identity, and representation270
  5. Media, rhetoric, and discourse218
  6. History, archives, and memory214
  7. Violence, safety, and dehumanization213
  8. Healthcare and medicine197
  9. Public policy and governance181
  10. Feminism and gender politics178

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Interpretive analysis442
  2. Historical analysis278
  3. Clinical and medical analysis165
  4. Psychological analysis138
  5. Qualitative and interview research112
  6. Media and discourse analysis103
  7. Critical theory72
  8. Empirical and quantitative research62

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Public accommodations and facilities170
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination160
  3. Criminal justice and public safety119
  4. Elections and democratic governance94
  5. Research ethics and data governance71
  6. Labor and employment policy39
  7. Housing and social services38
  8. Administrative classification and identity documents35

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Collective citation

Matt Kailey

Cristan Williams · March 10, 2014

Trans Etiquette: When is a Compliment Not a Compliment?

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Article authors

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mkailey

39 publications · 7 inbound sources/citations

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Cooke

6 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.

TransAdvocate Staff

11 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.

Admin

112 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.

Cristan

125 publications · 110 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.

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Contextual research path

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Overview

1989: Transgender = Umbrella Term

Provides broader orientation to the subject and terminology assumed by this article.

The Sexually Unusual: Guide to Understanding and Helping by Dennis M Dailey, page 73

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0021-F751
Policy implications

1981: Transgender, To Transcend Gender

Examines legal, institutional, or policy consequences connected to the shared theme.

Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Publication date: 1981 In Polynesia, sexuality is not merely an idiom for gender relations but of transgender rank as…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0287-A902
Related academic framing

1974: Trans-People and Transgender as Umbrella Terms

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

“[In 1974] some of the terminology used at the conference would take some twenty years to become widespread. As far as we are aware, the first use of…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0073-69B1
Related academic framing

1980: The Return of Transgenderal

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

Virginia Prince is sometimes given credit for coining all variations/meanings of “transgender” because she wrote the term “transgenderal” once in 1969… but she never again used the term.…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0111-7B37