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[UPDATED] SiriusXM Broadcasts ClearChannel Support for Trans Murder

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Source Summary

6/6/13, 1:10 PM UPDATE: Sign the petition demanding that Clear Channel issue a public apology! 6/5/13, 8:30 PM UPDATE: I’ve spoken with Senior Vice President of Communications at SiriusXM and he has made it clear that they do not support the comments of the Lex and Terry show and have taken steps, via an official statement (see below), to distance SiriusXM from the show. Sirius satellite radio, founded by out transwoman Martine Rothblatt, bought XM satellite radio in 2008 and is now known as SiriusXM. Just days into Pride Month, the SiriusXM Clear Channel talk show, Lex and Terry came out in support of murdering trans people in a cases of gay/trans-panic. On Friday (06/03/2013), the Lex and Terry show began discussing this issue saying, There’s a teen that shot a tranny after finding out that it was a man after they had a little sexual encounter. A co-host responded,

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“[UPDATED] SiriusXM Broadcasts ClearChannel Support for Trans Murder” 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

As a publication record from 2013 at Transadvocate.com, “[UPDATED] SiriusXM Broadcasts ClearChannel Support for Trans Murder” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to community and organizing. 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 and housing and social services. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and community and organizing, 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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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
100%
2
Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
17%
3
Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
13%
4
Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
13%
5
Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
10%
6
Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
8%

Academic framing

1
Public-health analysis
100%

Policy framing

1
Criminal justice and public safety
100%
2
Housing and social services
100%

Editorial function

Source topics

Relationship key

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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.

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Granular comparative context

How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

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

5 2004

11 2005

4 2006

90 2007

64 2008

47 2009

14 2010

130 2011

112 2012

240 2013

126 2014

33 2015

28 2016

50 2017

41 2018

15 2019

2 2020

4 2021

2 2024

1 2025

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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

10 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 6 distinct domains; the strongest available scholarly index reports 56 citing works. The dated evidence currently spans 2005–2026. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

66distinct source records documented

6distinct referring domains

56best available scholarly cited-by count

0books or volumes documented

10references retained by the source publication

2005–2026observed years in dated evidence

Evidence by channel

Independent counts; bars are not additive

Source-held references10

Scholarly citing works56

Coverage of the evidence search

Shows what has actually been checked

Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026

Scholarly indexesChecked · August 31, 2026

Book and volume searchNotchecked

Public-web searchNotconfigured

Collective corpus linksIndexed · August 31, 2026

53 Crossref56 OpenCitations

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Documented references over time

Yearly scholarly series: OpenCitations, combined with dated non-scholarly evidence

1 2005

1 2006

1 2007

2 2008

1 2009

2 2011

1 2012

2 2014

2 2015

6 2016

6 2017

6 2018

4 2019

8 2020

1 2021

1 2022

3 2023

2 2024

5 2025

1 2026