1898: Transsesso = Transgender/Transsexual, Currently
The term “transsesso” is the modern-day Italian term for transgender and transsexual. Here’s this term being used in a 1898 Latin language book. I’m noting this 1800s usage to make the point that sticking “trans” in front of “sex” and/or “gender” isn’t an improbable feat that can be traced to any one single person. At this […]
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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.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
- Transadvocate.com840
- Cristan’s Research83
- The TERFs52
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- 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
Academic framings in this topic
- 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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