Am I The Only One? Online Polling, Advocacy, and The Least of Us
Recently the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) announced their effort to collect data on “discrimination against transgender people in housing, employment, public accommodation, health care, education, family life and criminal justice.” Mara Keisling said of this effort: “This is an absolutely critical national effort. We urge all transgender and gender non-conforming people to take the survey to help guide us in making better laws and policies that will improve the quality of life for all transgender people. We need everyone’s voice in this, everyone’s participation.” One of the glaring holes in this effort is that it comes in the form of an online survey. Looking…
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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
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 5 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
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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