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Attorney Cathy Brennan: More extreme than an ex-gay hate group?

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Source Summary

The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is a right-wing activist organization and huge supporter of the ex-gay movement as well as the debunked practice of conversion therapy. Recently, the PJI stirred up the right-wing word by claiming that a kid – I refer to her as Jane Doe for safety reasons – in Colorado was helped by the public school system to harass 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. I interviewed PJI and they claim that they will never out Jane Doe, the 16 year old trans kid: Cristan, we’ve have made pains, to never seek to identify this individual. Any more than, than we’re identifying at this point our own clients. This is all about privacy and therefore have great respect for

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Community significance

“Attorney Cathy Brennan: More extreme than an ex-gay hate group?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to community and organizing, while also engaging education and youth. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

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As a publication record from 2013 at The TERFs, “Attorney Cathy Brennan: More extreme than an ex-gay hate group?” provides dated evidence of how community and organizing was being argued in relation to education and youth. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
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