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Arizona Transgender Woman Monica Jones on trial for refusing “Project Rose”

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Source Summary

Monica’s troubles began one night after protesting Arizona’s failed religious anti-LGBT legislation while walking to a bar. An undercover officer engaged her in a conversation which led to her being charged with “manifesting prostitution”, AKA walking while trans. Since Jones hadn’t been previously charged with similar ‘crimes’ Ms. Jones was offered a deferral if she enrolled in the Catholic/police/university “Project Rose” and successfully completed it. However, Ms. Jones is fighting back refusing the plea and religious programming despite being repeatedly harassed by police. Moskal-Dairman is certain her friend was profiled, saying Jones was stopped multiple times after the initial run-in with the undercover officer and that SWOP-Phoenix has a video of police profiling Jones and using discriminatory language against her. “She was profiled as a sex worker because she’s a trans woman of color. She is not guilty,” Moskal-Dairman said. Jones has sequentially becoming a local and national icon for

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Arizona Transgender Woman Monica Jones on trial for refusing “Project Rose”” may matter to community readers because it records a specific intervention in debates about religion and morality, with particular attention to transgender identity and history. The permanent record makes that intervention easier to locate and compare with other Collective coverage.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “Arizona Transgender Woman Monica Jones on trial for refusing “Project Rose”” provides dated evidence of how religion and morality was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to religion and morality and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

Content analysis

Ranked themes and framings

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Themes

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Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
100%
2
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
54%
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Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
43%
4
Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
14%

Academic framing

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Interpretive analysis
100%

Policy framing

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Criminal justice and public safety
100%

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Granular comparative context

How “Religion and morality” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 7 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2007.

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Peak year indexed to 100

3 2005

7 2006

27 2007

9 2008

2 2009

14 2011

9 2012

22 2013

23 2014

2 2015

4 2016

7 2017

8 2018

3 2019

1 2020

1 2021

2 2025

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Documented circulation and reception

2 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 2 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently falls in 2014. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

2distinct source records documented

2distinct referring domains

0best available scholarly cited-by count

0books or volumes documented

2references retained by the source publication

2014observed years in dated evidence

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Source-held references2

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Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026

Scholarly indexesChecked · August 31, 2026

Book and volume searchNotchecked

Public-web searchNotconfigured

Collective corpus linksIndexed · August 31, 2026

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Documented references over time

Dated source evidence currently stored by the Collective

2 2014

Reference retained by the source publicationSource-publication recordDirectly verified

Monica Jones, AZ Transgender Woman convicted of Walking While Trans | The TransAdvocate

Monica Jones, AZ Transgender Woman convicted of Walking While Trans | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · April 14, 2014

Busted for “Walking While Trans”

Reference retained by the source publicationSource-publication recordProvider-confirmed

Monica Jones, AZ Transgender woman convicted of the crime “Walking While Trans” | Planet Transgender

Monica Jones, AZ Transgender woman convicted of the crime “Walking While Trans” | Planet Transgender · planettransgender.com · September 8, 2014

[…] Busted for “Walking While Trans” […]

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Kelli

32 publications · 35 inbound sources/citations