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1966: Trans-sexualists = Transsexuals

Collective Archive Number CAN-0000-0203-3069 Permanent resolver

They think like women and like to think of themselves as women. They feel like women and react like women. They want to be women and ought to be women, but by the caprice of nature their bodies are those of men. Conversely, there are women who want to be men. There are the “trans-sexualists.” […]

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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.

Relative presence by year

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Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com165
  2. Cristan’s Research29
  3. The TERFs10

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Transgender identity and history166
  2. Community and organizing86
  3. Healthcare and medicine81
  4. Law and civil rights77
  5. Culture, identity, and representation64
  6. Education and youth62
  7. Media, rhetoric, and discourse49
  8. History, archives, and memory48
  9. Feminism and gender politics35
  10. Family and relationships35

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Clinical and medical analysis72
  2. Historical analysis69
  3. Interpretive analysis64
  4. Psychological analysis61
  5. Empirical and quantitative research30
  6. Media and discourse analysis29
  7. Qualitative and interview research24
  8. Critical theory17

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  1. Public accommodations and facilities28
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination24
  3. Research ethics and data governance20
  4. Criminal justice and public safety18
  5. Elections and democratic governance15
  6. Administrative classification and identity documents9
  7. Housing and social services8
  8. Labor and employment policy8

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Article authors

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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.

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