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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: Health Commun. 2011 Oct 18;27(5):457–466. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2011.610256

TABLE 1.

Number of Webpages (Total Webpages and by Target Audience) Generated by Different Keyword Search Terms

Keyword Search Term Total, n Transgender Individuals, n (%)a Health Professionals, n (%)a General Public, n (%)a
Total 204 118 (58) 47 (23) 39 (19)
General
 Gender identity 18 4 (22) 6 (33) 8 (45)
 Cross dressing 13 10 (77) 1 (8) 2 (15)
 Transgendered 11 9 (82) 1 (9) 1 (9)
 Transgender 11 9 (82) 1 (9) 1 (9)
 Transgender resources 8 4 (50) 2 (25) 2 (25)
 TG 6 6 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Trans 1 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Subtotal 68b (33%c) 43 (63) 11 (16) 14 (21)
Health/HIV
 Transgender HIV 18 2 (11) 14 (78) 2 (11)
 Transgender HIV prevention 12 0 (0) 12 (100) 0 (0)
 Transgender health 11 8 (73) 2 (18) 1 (9)
 Transgender HIV treatment 7 1 (14) 5 (71) 1 (14)
 Subtotal 48 (24%) 11 (23) 33 (69) 4 (8)
Identity
 FTM 14 13 (93) 0 (0) 1 (7)
 Transsexual 8 5 (63) 2 (25) 1 (13)
 Cross dresser 7 6 (86) 0 (0) 1 (14)
 Drag queen 5 3 (60) 0 (0) 2 (40)
 Tgirl 3 3 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 MTF 1 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Transvestite 1 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Subtotal 39 (19%) 32 (82) 2 (5) 5 (13)
Body modification
 Gender reassignment 12 6 (50) 0 (0) 6 (50)
 TG transformation 4 3 (75) 0 (0) 1 (25)
 Subtotal 16 (8%) 9 (56) 0 (0) 7 (44)
Social networking
 Transvestite chat 8 6 (75) 0 (0) 2 (25)
 TG stories 7 7 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 TG chat 6 5 (83) 0 (0) 1 (17)
 TG personals 6 4 (67) 0 (0) 2 (33)
 Transvestite stories 5 0 (0) 1 (20) 4 (80)
 Transvestite pics 1 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Subtotal 33 (16%) 23 (70) 1 (3) 9 (28)
a

Row total.

b

Column total.

c

Percentage of total webpages.