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Why this article may matter
Community significance
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.
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
The article discusses institutions, law, or governance in relation to transgender identity and history and may help researchers identify practical policy implications.
Themes and framings
These classifications are inferred from the article’s content and source metadata, then remain directly editable by Collective editors.
Themes
Academic framing
Editorial function
Source topics
How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (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
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
Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.
Sources that reference this article
No individual inbound sources have been stored yet. Counts can still appear when a scholarly index supplies aggregate citation metadata.
Coverage combines links inside the Collective corpus, verified Webmentions, curated sources, and DOI-based scholarly indexes when configured. It is not an exhaustive index of the public web.
Author profiles and related researchers
Related authors in the Collective corpus
Cooke
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.
Cristan
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Community and organizing.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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