Collective article record

The Astell Project Transphobia

Collective Archive Number CAN-0000-0266-423B Permanent resolver
Visual preview of The Astell Project Transphobia
Standardized 16:9 visual preview of the source page. If the screenshot service is unavailable, the source’s featured image or a neutral placeholder is used. This graphic is not an archival capture.

This is a very unfortunate situation. What started out as an amazing opportunity to address gender inequality in education seems to be turning into an anti-trans organization. At least this is how it looks from some recent tweets by founder of the project, Triona Kennedy. The LAST thing the transgender community needs is a transphobic organization teaching kids. Our community can’t even handle the current amount of hate and violence directed at is. This is a very serious situation if this project takes off. Currently there are only around 450 signatures on the petition. The following tweet was tweeted by the @astellproject: Here she puts identifying in quotes and then goes on to mock transgender people. There seems to be no ambiguity here. She was called out on it but wanted to answer in private. However, she did give a generic response. @astellproject this is an incredibly problematic tweet. Do

The Source Summary reproduces the first 150 words of the source article unless a Collective editor has explicitly locked a replacement.

Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“The Astell Project Transphobia” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging community and organizing. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning transgender identity and history. Published in 2013 by The TERFs, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how community and organizing was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

“The Astell Project Transphobia” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for community and organizing.

Content analysis

Ranked themes and framings

Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.

Themes

  1. 1
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    100%
  2. 2
    Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    67%
  3. 3
    Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    58%
  4. 4
    Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    50%
  5. 5
    Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    33%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%

Editorial function

Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Transgender identity and history to Community and organizing: Overlapping sibling theme
Community and organizing
Transgender identity and history to Violence, safety, and dehumanization: Separate but related
Violence, safety, and dehumanization
Transgender identity and history to Education and youth: Separate but related
Education and youth
Transgender identity and history to Labor, economics, and institutions: Separate but related
Labor, economics, and institutions
Transgender identity and historyRank 1
Relationship key
  • Overlapping themes
  • Separate but related themes
The diagram distinguishes hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes inferred within this article. It does not assert that all themes are mutually exclusive.

These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.

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

Relative presence by year

Peak year indexed to 100

Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.

Inbound-link and citation evidence

Documented circulation and reception

No broad reception evidence has been documented yet; this may reflect unconfigured or incomplete indexes rather than an absence of circulation. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

0distinct source records documented
0distinct referring domains
0best available scholarly cited-by count
0books or volumes documented
0references retained by the source publication
observed years in dated evidence

Evidence by channel

Independent counts; bars are not additive

No channel totals are available yet.

Coverage of the evidence search

Shows what has actually been checked
Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026
0
Scholarly indexesChecked · August 31, 2026
0
Book and volume searchNotchecked
0
Public-web searchNotconfigured
0
Collective corpus linksIndexed · August 31, 2026
0

No individual references have been stored yet. This can mean that source-held pingbacks have not been imported, provider access is not configured, or available indexes do not expose this work in a machine-readable form.

Counts describe documented circulation and reception in the sources currently available to the Collective. They are not a score of quality, merit, popularity, or social value, and provider totals can overlap.

Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

Admin

98 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Related authors in the Collective corpus

Cristan Williams

319 publications · 3,580 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

Cristan Williams

143 publications · 714 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

Marian

7 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 89 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

TransAdvocate Staff

11 publications · 2 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.

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.

Contextual research path

Continue through the Collective

Counterpoint

GLAAD condemns fake “report” of harassment by transgender student

Offers a critical, contrasting, or corrective interpretation of the shared issue.

GLAAD condemned the false report by the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) which claimed a transgender kid was harassing cisgender girls in Colorado. PJI is the ex-gay/creationist organization at…

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0618-4DF2
Related academic framing

Another California trans student attacked, trans community responds: #JD4PJI

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

Just a week after the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) backed coalition turned in over 600,000 signatures to repeal protections for trans children in California, a trans student was…

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0580-3064
Related academic framing

Exploiting The Transgender Dead: The Irresistible Temptation Part II

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

Each year as another Transgender Day of Remembrance comes near, it seems as if another group or organization tries to remake the TDOR in their own image (examples:…

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-1054-2E72