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With Apologies to Radical Feminists

Collective Archive Number CAN-0000-1186-33F8 Permanent resolver

Recently, I commented on a post at Bilerico: You want to get technical Sue? In the strictest definition, you’re not female. The distinction between the […]

Interpretive context

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

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

Content analysis

Themes and framings

These classifications are inferred from the article’s content and source metadata, then remain directly editable by Collective editors.

Granular comparative context

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 100

Presence by member publication

  1. Transadvocate.com840
  2. Cristan’s Research83
  3. The TERFs52

Frequently co-occurring concepts

  1. Community and organizing469
  2. Law and civil rights424
  3. Education and youth273
  4. Culture, identity, and representation270
  5. Media, rhetoric, and discourse218
  6. History, archives, and memory214
  7. Violence, safety, and dehumanization213
  8. Healthcare and medicine197
  9. Public policy and governance181
  10. Feminism and gender politics178

Academic framings in this topic

  1. Interpretive analysis442
  2. Historical analysis278
  3. Clinical and medical analysis165
  4. Psychological analysis138
  5. Qualitative and interview research112
  6. Media and discourse analysis103
  7. Critical theory72
  8. Empirical and quantitative research62

Policy framings in this topic

  1. Public accommodations and facilities170
  2. Civil rights and anti-discrimination160
  3. Criminal justice and public safety119
  4. Elections and democratic governance94
  5. Research ethics and data governance71
  6. Labor and employment policy39
  7. Housing and social services38
  8. Administrative classification and identity documents35

Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Related authors in the Collective corpus

Cristan Williams

324 publications · 3,096 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Kelli

32 publications · 4 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Guest

57 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Mari

6 publications · 10 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Culture, identity, and representation.

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.

Contextual research path

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Evidence and documentation

Wikipedia Rewrite: Transgender

Adds research, documentation, or primary-source context.

I was asked to rewrite the origin narrative for the “transgender” entry on wikipedia. The current entry is full of demonstrable falsehoods which propagate ignorance concerning the history…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0064-94F7
Overview

1968: Harry Benjamin Intro to Jorgensen Bio

Provides broader orientation to the subject and terminology assumed by this article.

FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY HARRY BENJAMIN, M.D. Noted American endocrinologist “As a physician and, I hope, a medical man of understanding, I salute the courage of Christine Jorgensen…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0131-6E92
Policy implications

Deconstructing TERF Tropes

Examines legal, institutional, or policy consequences connected to the shared theme.

The Strawman Shuffle: TERFs tend to behave much like a right wing echo chamber so that once a new anti-trans strawman is created, it is… Continue readingDeconstructing TERF…

The TERFsCAN-0000-0327-A804
Related academic framing

Filisa Vistima’s Diary

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

Filisa Vistima was a 22-year-old pre-operative transsexual woman from Seattle. She volunteered at the Lesbian Resource Center (LRC). On March 6, 1993 Filisa took her own life. What…

Cristan’s ResearchCAN-0000-0135-3DEE