Signature Count Released In AB 1266 Referendum Signature Drive
On November 10, 2012, the Associated Press posted the article Group collects signatures to repeal Calif. transgender law. The article gives numbers related to the signature drive by the Privacy For All Students coalition’s effort to repeal the School Success and Opportunity Act (AB 1266). Opponents of a new California law that gives transgender students certain rights say they have collected enough signatures for an initiative that would repeal the law. Frank Schubert, the political strategist handling the signature gathering effort for conservative groups, said Sunday that the group submitted 620,000 signatures to get the initiative on the November 2014 ballot. To qualify, at least 505,000 valid signatures must be submitted. BuzzFeed, in their article Opponents Of Calif. Transgender Student Protections Law Confident Repeal Effort Will Move Forward, added the following: “As far as we are aware, this is the largest number of volunteer signatures ever submitted in a California
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Community significance
“Signature Count Released In AB 1266 Referendum Signature Drive” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging law and civil rights. 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, “Signature Count Released In AB 1266 Referendum Signature Drive” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to law and civil rights. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
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The article’s strongest policy connection is research ethics and data governance. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and law and civil rights, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life97%
- 3Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life54%
- 4Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community26%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
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- Community and organizing531
- Law and civil rights468
- Culture, identity, and representation320
- Education and youth308
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
- Healthcare and medicine248
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
- History, archives, and memory216
- Public policy and governance206
- Feminism and gender politics198
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- Public accommodations and facilities177
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
- Criminal justice and public safety131
- Elections and democratic governance100
- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveCONSPIRACY: PJI front group sues California because county offices were closed on holiday | The TransAdvocate
[…] sexual deviants an unstable. Their campaign of lies, fraud and intimidation produced over 600,000 signatures in support of discriminating against trans […]
CNN Writer Taken to Task for Transphobia, or “I like reblogging with alliteration. Also, Parker Malloy is awesome.” | Trans.Nerd.Feminist
[…] media that I’ve seen in quite some time. And of course, it’s gotten it’s very own religious-right-driven appeal referendum petition. Since the law went into effect on January 1, there’s been a resurgence of […]
Another California trans student attacked, trans community responds: #JD4PJI | The Transadvocate
[…] 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 caught on tape […]
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