Interview with Dr. Milton Diamond
Dr. Diamond is an early pioneer in trans research. Outside of the trans community, he is best known for exposing the “John/Joan” case in which Dr. Money (who allegedly physically attacked Dr. Diamond years before) faked his research to make the world believe that gender identity is a choice. We talk about his research experience, the history of terminology, his “rivalry” with John Money and more. I found Diamond to be gracious and interesting… I’m glad to have had an opportunity to talk with one of the original modern gender researchers. Email exchange with Diamond The “John/Joan” case: Dr. Diamond is known for following up the case of David Reimer, a boy raised as a girl after a botched circumcision. With the cooperation of Dr. H. Keith Sigmundson, who had been Reimer’s supervising psychiatrist, he tracked down the adult Reimer and found that John Money’s sex reassignment of Reimer had
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Community significance
“Interview with Dr. Milton Diamond” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging science, evidence, and expertise. 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 2012 by Cristan’s Research, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how science, evidence, and expertise was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is research ethics and data governance. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and science, evidence, and expertise, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication55%
- 3History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication26%
- 4Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community23%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community17%
- 6Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life13%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 267%
- 317%
Policy 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
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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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