1980: Transgender Orientation
The young adult: development after adolescence, 1980, page 73 …Throughout the adolescent period there is progressive experimentation and initiation into direct sexual contact. Cross-cultural data (Money & Ehrhardt, 1972) indicate that for the great majority of people sexual intercourse first occurs during this period. In addition, a vast array of incidental skills arc being tried out and developed. These range from the simple ability to conduct everyday conversation with the opposite sex to being able to develop relationships on a social and personal level. For people of homosexual or transgender orientation, adolescence often brings their dawning awareness of self into poignantly sharp focus. Even where sexually oriented behavior is minimal or nonexistent, it can be safely asserted that considerable amounts of effort and energy are being expended by the individual in containing, blocking, inhibiting, or channeling sexual expression. In the case of the male, the most celibate inevitably have sexual
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“1980: Transgender Orientation” may matter to affected communities because it organizes evidence or documented claims about transgender identity and history and places them alongside science, evidence, and expertise. This can help readers distinguish the article’s evidentiary contribution from broader commentary on the subject.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2012 at Cristan’s Research, “1980: Transgender Orientation” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to science, evidence, and expertise. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
No dominant policy frame was detected in “1980: Transgender Orientation.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of transgender identity and history may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship diagram distinguishes sub-themes, siblings, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication30%
- 3Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life30%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
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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.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing519
- Law and civil rights455
- Culture, identity, and representation305
- Education and youth288
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse247
- Healthcare and medicine229
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization226
- History, archives, and memory211
- Public policy and governance200
- Family and relationships186
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities170
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination161
- Criminal justice and public safety128
- Elections and democratic governance95
- Research ethics and data governance73
- Labor and employment policy51
- Housing and social services37
- Administrative classification and identity documents36
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Mari
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Marti Abernathey
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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