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Christine Jorgensen: When Did She Become a Transsexual?

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This is a review when of early news and how it reported on Jorgensen. I’ve found that Jorgensen does not seem to have been referred to as a “transsexual” in newsprint during the first several years that she was out. At the time, she was the #1 most talked about person in the entire world… and […]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Peak year indexed to 100

1 1016

5 2004

11 2005

4 2006

89 2007

64 2008

47 2009

14 2010

124 2011

111 2012

237 2013

119 2014

28 2015

19 2016

38 2017

39 2018

15 2019

2 2020

4 2021

1 2022

2 2024

1 2025

Presence by member publication

Transadvocate.com840
Cristan’s Research83
The TERFs52

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Community and organizing469
Law and civil rights424
Education and youth273
Culture, identity, and representation270
Media, rhetoric, and discourse218
History, archives, and memory214
Violence, safety, and dehumanization213
Healthcare and medicine197
Public policy and governance181
Feminism and gender politics178

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Interpretive analysis442
Historical analysis278
Clinical and medical analysis165
Psychological analysis138
Qualitative and interview research112
Media and discourse analysis103
Critical theory72
Empirical and quantitative research62

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Public accommodations and facilities170
Civil rights and anti-discrimination160
Criminal justice and public safety119
Elections and democratic governance94
Research ethics and data governance71
Labor and employment policy39
Housing and social services38
Administrative classification and identity documents35

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Cristan

125 publications · 110 inbound sources/citations