https://www.genderlibs.org/series/gender-platform-observatory/Recent content in Gender Platform Observatory on GenderLibsHugoenCopyright © 2024-2026 GenderLibs. All Rights Reserved.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://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 whosehttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-history-retrieval-context-observatory/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-history-retrieval-context-observatory/Abstract Public transgender history in mainland China increasingly reaches readers through search, platform indexes, digital archives, and automated summaries. The first representation a reader encounters is often a compressed layer rather than the underlying record: a title, date, source label, search snippet, platform tag, machine-produced description, or small set of structured fields. Compression makes discovery efficient, while also deciding which historical facts receive attention first. The 2009 national rule forhttps://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, crawlhttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/08/bilibili-nanniang-visibility-observatory/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/08/bilibili-nanniang-visibility-observatory/Abstract Bilibili videos about nanniang (男娘, a contemporary Chinese label often used around feminine male presentation) regularly appear alongside terms such as cross-dressing / nü zhuang (女装), Nanliang (南梁), Xiao Nanliang (小南梁), CD, TS, MTF, cosplay, makeup, and body styling. Reading each word only as a definition misses another layer that the platform