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Reason 430430983098 Why I Want Surgery

Collective Archive Number CAN-0000-1345-FC53 Permanent resolver

“Although Facen had breasts and lived as a woman, the Sheriff’s Department was treating her as a man because she had male genitalia, Lt. Tom […]

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 healthcare and medicine and makes that material easier to locate alongside related records.

Historical significance

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

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected automatically. Editors can add a policy significance note when the article has institutional or regulatory implications not captured by the local analysis.

Content analysis

Themes and framings

These classifications are inferred from the article’s content and source metadata, then remain directly editable by Collective editors.

Academic framing

Editorial function

Source topics

Granular comparative context

How “Healthcare and medicine” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 7 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2012.

Relative presence by year

Peak year indexed to 100

Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com178
  2. Cristan’s Research40
  3. The TERFs12

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Transgender identity and history197
  2. Community and organizing90
  3. Law and civil rights87
  4. Science, evidence, and expertise81
  5. Culture, identity, and representation78
  6. Education and youth70
  7. History, archives, and memory51
  8. Media, rhetoric, and discourse48
  9. Feminism and gender politics41
  10. Violence, safety, and dehumanization39

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Clinical and medical analysis148
  2. Psychological analysis75
  3. Historical analysis74
  4. Interpretive analysis49
  5. Empirical and quantitative research28
  6. Media and discourse analysis26
  7. Critical theory22
  8. Qualitative and interview research22

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Civil rights and anti-discrimination37
  2. Public accommodations and facilities36
  3. Criminal justice and public safety29
  4. Research ethics and data governance21
  5. Elections and democratic governance16
  6. Housing and social services15
  7. Labor and employment policy11
  8. Administrative classification and identity documents10

Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Related authors in the Collective corpus

Cristan Williams

324 publications · 3,096 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Kelli

32 publications · 4 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Guest

57 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Mari

6 publications · 10 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

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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Now, I can be a “real woman,” no surgery needed! I just need to move to Canada! Real Women don’t support fags!

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What exactly is St Patrick’s Day as it is celebrated in the states?

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

What exactly is St Patrick’s Day as it is celebrated in the states? Per se; it is a celebration of “Irishness” though only a certain […]

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Related Perspective

1977: Trans-sexed

Provides a contextually related perspective from elsewhere in the Collective.

She withdrew from medical practice in order to concentrate on playing tennis as “my vehicle” for proving that a trans-sexed male “is a woman in every conceivable way”…

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