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Research method: Content Analysis

Sample source: People's Daily Online (people.com.cn) (2013-2024)

Coding basis: 
1. Categories: four categories based on the correlations and representative of news content; 

2. Framing theory: Issue-specific and Generic news frames.

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Research Question:
How People's Daily Online covered transgender issues after 2013?

Basic principle:
1.Representation of transgender in media;
2.The public sphere of official media People’s Daily.

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1.The history of changes in the social status of transgender since the founding of New China(1949-1990-2013);

2.People's Daily with the nature of official media and the establishment of People's Daily Online(1946-1997-2013);

3.Transgender news in the gray area of reporting.

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1.After 2013, under Xi's administration, the People's Daily's coverage of transgender content was very limited, with a clear trend of restriction and tightening;

2.While the wording was objective and neutral, they were mostly limited to the political and medical spheres and bundled with other vulnerable groups;

3. There is only a handful of local transgender presses that attempt to marginalize the community as a product of Western identity politics.

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Through content analysis, this study discloses that in the contemporary international context where transgender is fully depathologized(no longer defined as a disease), the People's Daily, representing the official media of the traditional Eastern Country, has always been interfered with political factors in its evaluation on trans issues,especially under Xi's relatively conservativel ideological control, which has made the transgender news silent again after 2013. However,the excessive suppression no longer matches the improvement of public perception, and this research can help to feel the conflicts and deliberate sense of discrimination in such a small sample.

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the transgender community surrounded by darkness