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The Journal of the American Medical Association

Keyword analysis, 1962-2003

A reader sent this in 2003. The results were not independently confirmed.

I’ve been poking around the Journal of the American Medical Association, seeing what’s been published regarding [transsexual topics], when, and who authored it. I tend to look for patterns, like most good primates, and there are some very clear patterns that need thinking about:

A baseline search for the following words anywhere in the article of all available articles and archives between 1962 and 2003:

Keyword# of results
Blood12, 926
Sex6,813
Gender1,415
Homosexual431
Gay305
Lesbian82
Transsexual (including -ism, -ity)21
Transexual0

Of the 21 articles published by the AMA in the last 40 years concerning transsexualism, the topics and disciplines are as follows:

1 article in the Archives of Opthomology:

Ajita Grewal, Robert Y. Kim, and Emmett T. Cunningham, Jr Miliary Tuberculosis. Arch Ophthalmol 1998 116: 953-954.

2 articles in the Archives of Internal Medicine:

C. J. Fortin, T. Klein, H. L. Messmore, and J. B. O’Connell Myocardial infarction and severe thromboembolic complications. As seen in an estrogen-dependent transsexual. Archives of Internal Medicine 1984 144: 1082-1083.

M. deMarinis and E. N. Arnett Cerebrovascular occlusion in a transsexual man taking mestranol. Archives of Internal Medicine 1978 138: 1732-1733.

9 arcticles in the JAMA:

M. M. Belli Transsexual surgery.. A new tort? JAMA 1978 239: 2143-2148.

T. J. Pritchard, D. A. Pankowsky, J. P. Crowe, and F. W. Abdul-Karim Breast cancer in a male-to-female transsexual. A case report
JAMA 1988 259: 2278-2280.

HIV-Related Tuberculosis in a Transgender Network-Baltimore, Maryland, and New York City Area, 1998-2000
JAMA 2000 283: 2515-2516.

Domeena C. Renshaw Lessons From the Intersexed. JAMA 1999 281: 1137-1138. JAMA 1992 267: 1342

K. L. Lehrman Pulmonary embolism in a transsexual man taking diethylstilbestrol. JAMA 1976 235: 532-533.

Joe Leigh Simpson, Arne Ljungqvist, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Albert de la Chapelle, Louis J. Elsas II, A. A. Ehrhardt, Myron Genel, Elizabeth A. Ferris, and Alison Carlson Gender Verification in the Olympics. JAMA 2000 284: 1568-1569.

Books, Journals, New Media Received. JAMA 2000 283: 676-677.

Domeena C. Renshaw Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. JAMA 1999 281: 1138-1139.

9 articles in the Archives of General Psychiatry:

R. E. Hellman, R. Green, J. L. Gray, and K. Williams Childhood sexual identity, childhood religiosity, and “homophobia” as influences in the development of transsexualism, homosexuality, and heterosexuality. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1981 38: 910-915.

Henry J. Friedman The Sexual Century. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2002 59: 667-669.

D. H. Barlow, G. G. Abel, and E. B.. Blanchard Gender identity change in transsexuals. Follow-up and replications. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1979 36: 1001-1007.

Cindy M. Meston and Penny F. Frohlich The Neurobiology of Sexual Function. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2000 57: 1012-1030.

L. M. Lothstein and S. B. Levine Expressive psychotherapy with gender dysphoric patients. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1981 38: 924-929.

H. J. Baker Male transsexualism.. Confirmation of a hypothesis?
Arch Gen Psychiatry 1975 32: 1587-1588.

D. H. Barlow, E. J. Reynolds, and W. S. Agras Gender identity change in a transsexual. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1973 28: 569-576.

S. I. Harrison, A. C. Cain, and E. Benedek The childhood of a transsexual. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1968 19: 28-37.

H. Greilsheimer and J. E. Groves Male genital self-mutilation. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1979 36: 441-446.