Narrowing my Transgender Subjects and Citations

Citation Tracing

I began my search from the content I discovered in the Week 11 Blog Post in order to build upon my already existing topics.  In particular, I wanted to solidify quantitative data for transgender prevalence in the United States (Meerwijk, E. L., & Sevelius, J. M., 2017).  Consequently, my citation trace was within the Academic Search Premier database.

  • Forward Citation Trace – This study is cited 12 times within the Academic Search Premier according to metadata.  This led to a few more useful articles such as Nonbinary individuals’ emotional experiences: Implications for advancing counseling psychology beyond the binary (Sinnard, M. T., Budge, S. L., & Rossman, H. K., 2022).
  • Backward Citation Trace – This study cites 59 sources–many of which are other studies reporting transgender population figures.  I found Source #21 particularly useful (Flores, A.R., Herman, J.L., Gates, G.J., & Brown, T.N.T., 2016).

 

Subject Searching

For my subject search, I similarly used an article sourced in the Week 11 Blog Post regarding transgender media representation (McLaren, J. T., Bryant, S., & Brown, B., 2021).  The subject term which caught my eye was “CRITICAL discourse analysis“.  Searching for this subject term yielded 1,650 results–very few of which were related to my topic of interest.  As such, I added the subject term “Transgender“.  Searching “CRITICAL discourse analysis AND Transgender” as subject terms only yielded four results.  To expand the available resources somewhat, I instead searched “CRITICAL discourse analysis” as a subject term and “Transgender” as an all-text keyword.  This yielded a modest 18 results.  A good example of an eligible source from these results would be Defining diversity: a critical discourse analysis of public educational texts (Arce-Trigatti, A., & Anderson, A., 2020).

 

Conclusions

These practices were useful in expanding the horizon of this topic to more specific contexts.  With that said, these contexts can only slowly build the overall framework I’m trying to accomplish.  “Ageism in Transgender Representation in Media” might be a topic too unexplored to easily substantiate.  With that said, the core of what I want to study–the relations between cisgender and transgender people in wider society–is still very much on-the-table.  While I’m far from ready to abandon my original research goal, it’s worth contextualizing that goal as being within a much greater trend.

 

Works cited

Arce-Trigatti, A., & Anderson, A. (2020). Defining diversity: a critical discourse analysis of public educational texts. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 41(1), 3–20. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1080/01596306.2018.1462575

Flores, A.R., Herman, J.L., Gates, G.J., & Brown, T.N.T. (2016). How Many Adults Identify as Transgender in the United States? Los Angeles, CA: The Williams Institute. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Adults-US-Aug-2016.pdf

McLaren, J. T., Bryant, S., & Brown, B. (2021). “See me! Recognize me!” An analysis of transgender media representation. Communication Quarterly, 69(2), 172–191. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1080/01463373.2021.1901759

Meerwijk, E. L., & Sevelius, J. M. (2017). Transgender Population Size in the United States: a Meta-Regression of Population-Based Probability Samples. American Journal of Public Health, 107(2), e1–e8. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303578

Sinnard, M. T., Budge, S. L., & Rossman, H. K. (2022). Nonbinary individuals’ emotional experiences: Implications for advancing counseling psychology beyond the binary. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 35(1), 19–42. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1080/09515070.2021.1940102

About Ellinor (she/her)

I'm a deeply analytical and hyper fixated person. The numbers' game governs my way of life. I'm always paying attention to the clock and planning my day accordingly. With that said, I also have a converse need to allocate as much time out of my day to certain tasks as possible. Allocating only one hour for a project which takes an hour to complete has never been enough for me. Even if it means devoting 12 hours of my day to a project which takes eight hours, I always prefer to leave room for something. That could be a stress break, or it could be an intermission of a snack. Most often, however, it's for the hidden art of getting side-tracked. My attention span has never been my greatest asset, but I've never seen it as an inherently bad trait for my work ethic. For as long as I'm able to capitalize on my distractions, they can serve as an immense learning tool.

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