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Ask Matt: The Politics of Dating a Trans Woman

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A reader writes: I’ve always considered myself to be very well educated on the different letters in our acronym. However, all it took was one […]

Interpretive context

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

This record may have historical value because it preserves or interprets source material concerning transgender identity and history and situates it within a chronology, archive, or first-person account.

Policy significance

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

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Themes and framings

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Granular comparative context

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

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

Relative presence by year

Peak year indexed to 100

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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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

mkailey

39 publications · 7 inbound sources/citations

Related authors in the Collective corpus

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.

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.

Contextual research path

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Historical context

1972: Transsexual Action Organization Call for Community

Supplies historical or archival context for the issue discussed here.

Here is what is purported to be our nation’s first national transsexual rights organizations had to say about building a community of people of non-cisgender history, experience and/or…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0143-69C1
Goes deeper

Ask Matt: Should I Come Out or Stay In?

Examines a closely shared theme in greater detail or with a more specialized framing.

A reader writes: “I came out as a transman to myself in 2009, to my (cismale) partner, friends, family, and work from 2010-11, started testosterone […]

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0799-608F
Practical Guidance

Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’s “Vanguard”

Provides a contextually related perspective from elsewhere in the Collective.

Wikipedia has this to say about the pre-Stonewall Compton Cafeteria Riot and Vanguard: Many of the militant hustlers and street queens involved in the riot were members of…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0202-1E66
Historical context

1983: The Uninvited Dilemma and “Transgender”

Supplies historical or archival context for the issue discussed here.

The Uninvited Dilemma was thought of as one of the most important trans books of its time. The Uninvited Dilemma, has been quoted and referenced countless times in…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0129-B942