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Monica Jones, AZ Transgender Woman convicted of Walking While Trans

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Source Summary

Just days after Monica Jones was shown in this video protesting the failed religious discriminatory law in Phoenix, she was offered a ride while walking to a bar. The driver turned out to be an undercover police officer who then arrested her for “manifestation of prostitution’. This law is a vague statute which enables officers to arrest woman for no other reason than asking if they are police. The law is used to feed people to “Project Rose” as the city conducts massive drag nets hauling in dozens of individuals at a time. This profiling of woman by police is contested by the Arizona ACLU which notes that “The difference between ‘innocent’ and ‘criminal’ behavior often comes down to how a person looks. A 2011 study in NYC found that 59% of transgender respondents said that they had been stopped by police. So over half of our sisters in NYC

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Monica Jones, AZ Transgender Woman convicted of Walking While Trans” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, 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, “Monica Jones, AZ Transgender Woman convicted of Walking While Trans” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights 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 law and civil rights 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

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

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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
100%
2
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
72%
3
Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
37%
4
Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
24%
5
Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
17%
6
Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
11%

Academic framing

1
Legal analysis
100%
2
Psychological analysis
33%

Policy framing

1
Criminal justice and public safety
100%

Editorial function

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Granular comparative context

How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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5 2004

13 2005

6 2006

43 2007

38 2008

23 2009

6 2010

106 2011

45 2012

125 2013

61 2014

21 2015

13 2016

15 2017

22 2018

6 2019

1 2021

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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

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Public-web searchNotconfigured

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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 recordProvider-confirmed

Lap Dance Party!!! | SWOP Seattle

Lap Dance Party!!! | SWOP Seattle · swop-seattle.org · June 5, 2014

[…] as a platform to raise awareness and $$$ for the plight of Monica Jones (see this link and this link for info), and for SWOP-Seattle, which works to build community, resources, and social leverage […]

Reference retained by the source publicationSource-publication recordProvider-confirmed

What We’re Reading 4/16/14 | Disrupting Dinner Parties

What We’re Reading 4/16/14 | Disrupting Dinner Parties · disruptingdinnerparties.com · April 16, 2014

[…] Monica Jones, AZ Transgender Woman convicted of Walking While Trans […]

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Kelli

32 publications · 35 inbound sources/citations