Source Criticism on GenderLibshttps://www.genderlibs.org/tags/source-criticism/Recent content in Source Criticism on GenderLibsHugoenCopyright © 2024-2026 GenderLibs. All Rights Reserved.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700When History Becomes a PDF: A 2026 Observatory of Machine Readability and AI Discovery Interfaces in Mainland China’s Transgender Sourceshttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-machine-readable-source-audit/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-machine-readable-source-audit/Abstract A large share of mainland China’s recent transgender history survives as born-digital documents. National medical rules appear as government pages and attachments. Community surveys circulate as PDFs. Hospitals record the formation of clinical teams in news pages. Legal advocates reorganize litigation and regulation into topic pages. Digital archives then add author, year, original URL, file size, format, and checksum metadata to documents whose