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The Astell Project Transphobia

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Source Summary

This is a very unfortunate situation. What started out as an amazing opportunity to address gender inequality in education seems to be turning into an anti-trans organization. At least this is how it looks from some recent tweets by founder of the project, Triona Kennedy. The LAST thing the transgender community needs is a transphobic organization teaching kids. Our community can’t even handle the current amount of hate and violence directed at is. This is a very serious situation if this project takes off. Currently there are only around 450 signatures on the petition. The following tweet was tweeted by the @astellproject: https://twitter.com/astellproject/status/343681264106217474 Here she puts identifying in quotes and then goes on to mock transgender people. There seems to be no ambiguity here. She was called out on it but wanted to answer in private. However, she did give a generic response. @astellproject this is an incredibly problematic tweet.

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“The Astell Project Transphobia” 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

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning transgender identity and history. Published in 2013 by The TERFs, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how community and organizing was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

“The Astell Project Transphobia” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for community and organizing.

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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
100%
2
Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
67%
3
Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
58%
4
Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
50%
5
Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
33%

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Interpretive analysis
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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).

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5 2004

11 2005

4 2006

90 2007

64 2008

47 2009

14 2010

130 2011

112 2012

241 2013

119 2014

28 2015

17 2016

40 2017

39 2018

15 2019

1 2020

4 2021

2 2024

1 2025

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