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17. And sadly we haven't come as far as we'd like to think

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Original post)

Sun Oct 12, 2014, 10:59 PM

Oct 2014

the state of California is the first state to explicitly disallow the "gay panic" defence in murder cases...and that law was only enacted a few weeks ago. And meanwhile the LGBT community continue to experience disproportionate levels of violence (especially gay and transgender people of colour). NB that hate crimes against transgender people are not covered by Federal hate crime laws and aren't included in FBI reporting statistics; the stats they have are those reported from local police agencies and may understate the scope and extent of the issue.

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