Did bias lead to prosecution of bullied Hercules trans student?
By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams Jewlyes Gutierrez, 16-year-old trans sophomore at Hercules High School On December 4, 2013 an investigative reporter, Jennifer Lopez interviewed the police department about a case against a trans Hercules High School student who had fought back against school bullies: Detective Putten returned my phone call. This was in reference to Jewlyes Gutierrez, a transgender student who was being bullied and harassed at her high school. The context that I had contacted Detective Putten was in regards to the reasons why the transgender student was being brought up on charges. Detective Putten refused to acknowledge that the student was transgender in the first place and continued to call the trans female a “he,” using male pronouns to refer to this transgender student. I made it very clear to Detective Putten that this was a transgender student. Detective Putten replied to me that the transgender person is listed
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Did bias lead to prosecution of bullied Hercules trans student?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to education and youth, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “Did bias lead to prosecution of bullied Hercules trans student?” provides dated evidence of how education and youth 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 and education policy. It links that institutional frame to education and youth 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.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community74%
- 3Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict9%
- 4Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life6%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community4%
Academic framing
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- 2100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 219%
Editorial function
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How “Education and youth” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history308
- Community and organizing177
- Law and civil rights151
- Healthcare and medicine103
- Culture, identity, and representation97
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse93
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization93
- Family and relationships91
- Science, evidence, and expertise80
- History, archives, and memory78
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Documented circulation and reception
1 source-held reference records an early link or citation; the documented sources span 1 domain. 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.
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the Collectivefakecisgirl: anarcho-queer: Transgender Teen Faces 1 Year… | Christmas Tree Shop
[…] with the magazine Everything Transgender in NYC, brought to light one part of that injustice. In an interview with the TransAdvocate, Lopez recounted a conversation she had with Connie Van Putten of the Hercules Police […]
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Author profiles and related researchers
Related authors in the Collective corpus
Cristan Williams
Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Guest
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Rani Baker
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Kelley Winters
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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