Traces how national medical rules, population surveys, youth studies, family-violence research, clinical collaboration, and community support records have documented transgender people’s relationships with families since 2009, and proposes a family-interface matrix and relationship-state ledger for separating notification, material dependence, disclosure, violence or change efforts, clinical participation, and peer support.
A clause-by-clause comparison of mainland China’s 2009, 2017, and 2022 national rules for gender reassignment surgery, covering terminology, hospital and surgeon qualifications, applicant documents, age and marital status, diagnosis, ethics, legal-document interfaces, training, reporting, and quality control.
From Confidential Surgery to Woman’s Dream: How Zhang Kesha’s Public Narrative Took Shape, 1983–2003
A historical case study tracing Zhang Kesha’s 1983 confidential operation, local oral visibility in Changsha, years of private life-writing, and the 2003 publication and press tour around Woman’s Dream. It proposes a public-history relay and a narrative-provenance ledger for studying how a clinical event became public transgender history.
A research encyclopedia entry tracing how CCMD-3, ICD-10, ICD-11, national medical-technology rules, and hospital services overlap in mainland Chinese transgender care, with a diagnostic-migration ledger and four-clock model for distinguishing international classification, professional use, clinical interfaces, and regulation.
A source-critical guide that decomposes “first” claims in mainland China’s transgender medical history into procedure scope, geography, institution, publicity, administrative effect, event time, and source role, comparing the 1983 Zhang Kesha surgery, regional surgery histories of the 1990s, marriage registration in 2003, Geng Zi’s public identity in 2005–2006, and national technical rules from 2009 to 2022.
This research map organizes public transgender history in mainland China into seven intersecting paths—medicine, identity documents, work and courts, community infrastructure, public language, documentary regimes, and digital preservation—and introduces a historical conversion chain plus a source-switch method for reproducible reading.
An institutional archive guide to four decades of Peking University Third Hospital webpages, departmental histories, clinic guides, policy documents, clinical studies, and community-preserved copies, tracing how transgender medicine moved from a surgical case record to multidisciplinary care and research cohorts.
A historical-source guide that separates public self-identification and names, media labels, medical and administrative terms, and present-day editorial description, while tracking each naming event across time.
A historical study of clinical, media, administrative, and community vocabularies for transgender and gender-diverse lives in mainland China, using a vocabulary-stratigraphy model to explain how terms such as yixingzheng, bianxing ren, gender reassignment, transgender, and kuar coexist across institutions.