A historical argument connecting the 2018 National Transgender Hotline, Shanghai's first Trans Pride, Peking University Third Hospital specialty pathways, and the legal gender recognition review through a public-interface and entry-point-density framework.

Using hospital records, media narratives, administrative rules, community hotlines, litigation and surveys, and digital archives, this study reconstructs mainland China’s transgender public history through six documentary regimes and a reproducible source-card method.