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What happens when PJI is confronted by parents?

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Source Summary

The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization that stirred up the right-wing word by claiming that a trans kid (who I will refer to as Jane Doe, for reasons of safety) in Colorado was harassing cisgender girls in the restrooms. Right-wing media outlets jumped at the story without conducting any fact checking, prompting members of the right-wing community to call for the death of the trans kid. While I interviewed Matthew McReynolds, staff attorney for PJI earlier this week, McReynolds was first interviewed by the right-wing media organization, the World Daily News: “First of all, it’s our position that a teenage boy’s presence into the bathroom for teenage girls is inherently harassing,” said McReynolds, who is representing the families of the girls involved. “It’s inherently violative of their privacy rights. It’s also intimidating when you have a boy like this, who is not a freshman, going in there

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“What happens when PJI is confronted by parents?” 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 2013 at Transadvocate.com, “What happens when PJI is confronted by parents?” 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 research ethics and data governance and public accommodations and facilities. 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.

Content analysis

Ranked themes and framings

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Themes

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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
100%
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
69%
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
67%
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
64%
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Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
62%
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Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
38%

Academic framing

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Legal analysis
100%
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Qualitative and interview research
100%
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Empirical and quantitative research
50%
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Clinical and medical analysis
22%

Policy framing

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Research ethics and data governance
100%
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Public accommodations and facilities
80%
3
Civil rights and anti-discrimination
13%

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Granular comparative context

How “Education and youth” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

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8 2006

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16 2008

12 2009

2 2010

27 2011

36 2012

106 2013

54 2014

14 2015

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Documented circulation and reception

17 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 7 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently spans 2013–2015. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

17distinct source records documented

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0books or volumes documented

17references retained by the source publication

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Source-held references17

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Documented references over time

Dated source evidence currently stored by the Collective

13 2013

2 2014

2 2015

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What happens when PJI is confronted by parents?

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#JD4PJI: The downfall of the Pacific Justice Institute and the sweet victory of trans youth | The TransAdvocate

#JD4PJI: The downfall of the Pacific Justice Institute and the sweet victory of trans youth | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · January 18, 2015

In response, I interviewed Matthew McReynolds and asked him a number of hardball question. He lied numerous times and when I played him audio of Jane Doe’s mother’s plea to stop attacking her daughter, McReynolds’ response was to misgender Jane Doe and blame her for…