Platform Observatory on GenderLibshttps://www.genderlibs.org/tags/platform-observatory/Recent content in Platform Observatory on GenderLibsHugoenCopyright © 2024-2026 GenderLibs. All Rights Reserved.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700How History Survives Web Change: A Digital Preservation and Discoverability Observatory for Mainland China’s Transgender Sources, 2009–2026https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-source-survival-stack/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-source-survival-stack/Abstract Mainland China’s public transgender history increasingly lives on the web. A 2009 national medical-technology rule, the 2017 national transgender survey, medical and litigation records from the mid-2010s, and recent hospital guidance now circulate across government websites, institutional copies, community archives, specialist legal archives, general web archives, and search indexes. Each historical object therefore has several possible routes of entry. Page life cycles, crawl