Collective article record

1988: Transgender = Transsexual

Collective Archive Number CAN-0000-0004-F8D3 Permanent resolver

On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith, and Love by Brian McNaught, 1988, page 28

Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

This article may contribute to community understanding by clarifying how transgender identity and history is described, debated, or represented within the Collective corpus.

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

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.

Granular comparative context

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 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

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

Inbound-link tracker

Sources that reference this article

0verified sources stored
0scholarly cited-by count
0OpenAlex cited-by count
0Crossref cited-by count

No individual inbound sources have been stored yet. Counts can still appear when a scholarly index supplies aggregate citation metadata.

Coverage combines links inside the Collective corpus, verified Webmentions, curated sources, and DOI-based scholarly indexes when configured. It is not an exhaustive index of the public web.

Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Cristan

125 publications · 110 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, Healthcare and medicine.

Mari

6 publications · 10 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

TransAdvocate Staff

11 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.

Admin

112 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

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.

Contextual research path

Continue through the Collective

Policy implications

TLC’s Masen Davis: What Happens Next With AB 1266

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

A brief video filmed in early November, 2013, with Masen Davis of the Transgender Law Center. In this video he discusses what we can expect […]

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0595-6CF9
Related academic framing

Ashton Lee’s Testimony Before State Senate Education Committee On AB 1266

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

Ashton Lee in a transgender youth who attends California’s Manteca High School. Back on June 12th, he testified before the California State Senate Education Committee […]

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0611-2064
Policy implications

Signature Count Released In AB 1266 Referendum Signature Drive

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

On November 10, 2012, the Associated Press posted the article Group collects signatures to repeal Calif. transgender law. The article gives numbers related to the […]

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0589-12DE
Policy implications

VICTORY in Texas: Activism Works!

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

The transadvocate recently reported on the efforts of the Texas radical right to derail a proposed LGBT non-discrimination policy in San Antonio. As noted, the […]

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0644-ACBC