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Minneapolis Star Tribune runs full-page advertisement for anti-LGBT hate group

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Source Summary

Months after the Minneapolis Star Tribune was strongly criticized for their coverage of Cece McDonald’s case, despite local trans activists’ earnest attempts to work with the Star Tribune to better understand the paper’s responsibility to use professional standards concerning respectful and accurate language, the Star Tribune continues to repeat many of the same mistakes. To add injury to insult, they recently ran a full-page advertisement for the anti-LGBT hate group The Minnesota Child Protection League. The ad was placed to oppose a proposed policy giving guidance to schools to support the participation of trans student-athletes within the Minnesota State High School League. The right of participation of trans students in high school sports is protected under Title IX. The ad uses a similar framework as other similar advertisements targeting trans youth. They misgender trans girls as “male” and use concern over male violence to fuel fear in service to denying

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Minneapolis Star Tribune runs full-page advertisement for anti-LGBT hate group” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to education and youth, while also engaging public policy and governance. 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, “Minneapolis Star Tribune runs full-page advertisement for anti-LGBT hate group” provides dated evidence of how education and youth was being argued in relation to public policy and governance. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is education policy. It links that institutional frame to education and youth and public policy and governance, 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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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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How “Education and youth” 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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The documented sources span 1 domain. 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.

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M.A.Melby

Cristan Williams · collective-demo.transhouston.com · March 8, 2014

Minneapolis Star Tribune runs full-page advertisement for anti-LGBT hate group

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Marian

7 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations