Restoring your faith in humanity: supporting Jane Doe
Before PJI: Jane Doe (front row, middle) with school friends. The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization who claimed that a trans kid (who I refer to as Jane Doe) in Colorado was harassing cisgender girls in the restrooms. Media outlets published PJI’s story without fact checking their claims, prompting members of the right-wing community to call for the death of Jane Doe. While PJI’s claims were proven false, the public animosity PJI inspired by and focused on Jane took its toll. Jane Doe was placed on a suicide watch. Between the near suicide of Jane and the reality of being degraded in the media by a well-funded, media savvy anti-trans group, the stress was taking its toll upon Jane’s family. But the you, dear reader, came along. You took action. People from across the globe sent letters, cards and postcards to Jane Doe. You took it upon
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Community significance
“Restoring your faith in humanity: supporting Jane Doe” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to family and relationships, while also engaging media, rhetoric, and discourse. 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 Transadvocate.com, “Restoring your faith in humanity: supporting Jane Doe” provides dated evidence of how family and relationships was being argued in relation to media, rhetoric, and discourse. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
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- 1Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication87%
- 3Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life47%
- 4Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict33%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community27%
- 6Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life13%
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- 1100%
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- Transgender identity and history186
- Law and civil rights129
- Community and organizing104
- Education and youth85
- Culture, identity, and representation58
- Public policy and governance58
- Healthcare and medicine47
- Labor, economics, and institutions43
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse41
- Science, evidence, and expertise40
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