1959: Attitudes Toward “Trans-sexuals and Transvestites”
Some Things Worry You About World The story of the Miami housewife who, it turned out, had once been a man, was a shocker. But not just because it involved sex surgery. After all, if science can correct such mistakes of nature as the absence of hair or decay of teeth, or dimming eyesight or […]
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How “Science, evidence, and expertise” 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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- Transadvocate.com165
- Cristan’s Research29
- The TERFs10
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- Transgender identity and history166
- Community and organizing86
- Healthcare and medicine81
- Law and civil rights77
- Culture, identity, and representation64
- Education and youth62
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse49
- History, archives, and memory48
- Feminism and gender politics35
- Family and relationships35
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- Historical analysis69
- Interpretive analysis64
- Psychological analysis61
- Empirical and quantitative research30
- Media and discourse analysis29
- Qualitative and interview research24
- Critical theory17
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- Administrative classification and identity documents9
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Cooke
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Mari
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
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