A fixed-sample observatory of government rules, hospital pages, community surveys, litigation records, community archives, web archives, and search indexes, proposing a source-survival stack and discovery-redundancy model for mainland China’s transgender history.

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 case study of the Guiyang Mr C transgender employment dispute, tracing how labor arbitration, wrongful-dismissal litigation, personality-rights litigation, and appeal translated gender identity, gender expression, and equal employment into a durable judicial record.

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.