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1981: Transgender, To Transcend Gender

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Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Publication date: 1981 In Polynesia, sexuality is not merely an idiom for gender relations but of transgender rank as well: Chiefliness and aristocracy are associated with active sexuality and with the stimulation of the fertility of nature (Ortner). – Page 17 Whitehead suggests that the […]

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Community significance

This article may matter to affected communities because it connects transgender identity and history to concrete institutional or policy questions, including administrative classification and identity documents.

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

This article may illuminate policy consequences by connecting transgender identity and history to administrative classification and identity documents. The classification is inferred from the article text and remains editable by Collective editors.

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Granular comparative context

How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 2 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

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

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

Policy framings in this topic

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