The Gay/Trans Panic Defense: What It is, and How to End It

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• THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
• WHEN IS "GAY PANIC" ACCEPTED? EXPLORG JUROR CHARACTERISTICS AND CASE TYPE AS PREDICTORS OF A SUCCSFUL GAY PANIC DEFENSE

THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT

This paper trac the orig of the term "homosexual panic" when was first scribed 1920 to the Frdian bisexual theory of sexual velopment and the ncepts of reprsed and latent homosexualy, and qutns the appropriatens of this term when ed to diagnose as well as to scribe different suatns. Homosexual panic an acute severe episo of anxiety, due to unnsc nflicts volvg sexual inty, which there is the fear or lnal nvictn that the person is thought by others to be a homosexual or is danger of sexual attack by a person of the same sex, often acpanied by agatn, guilt, hallucatns, or [pan´ik] acute, extreme anxiety wh disanizatn of personaly and functn; panic attacks are characteristic of panic disorr (see anxiety disorrs) and may also occur other mental disorr an anxiety disorr characterized by recurrent attacks of panic, episos of tense apprehensn, fear, or terror associated wh somatic symptoms such as dyspnea, palpatns, dizzs, vertigo, fatns, or shaks and wh psychologil symptoms such as feelgs of unrealy, fear of dyg, gog crazy, or losg ntrol; there is ually chronic nervons between attacks.

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Over the urse of lbian, gay, or bisexual people's lifetim, one five will experience hate crim, and one four transgenr people will as dividuals at the tersectn of homophobia, transphobia, and racism, face worse statistics. This study utilized 249 mock jurors to asss the effects of se type (asslt or homici) and juror characteristics (homophobia, relig fundamentalism, and polil orientatn) on the succs of the gay panic fense pared wh a ntral provotn fense. This study furthers the unrstandg of cisn makg s volvg the gay panic fense and highlights the need for more rearch to be nducted to help unrstand and bat LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) prejudice the urtroom.

WHEN IS "GAY PANIC" ACCEPTED? EXPLORG JUROR CHARACTERISTICS AND CASE TYPE AS PREDICTORS OF A SUCCSFUL GAY PANIC DEFENSE

AbstractThe Amerin Psychiatric Associatn and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn have suggted for many years now that there is signifint empiril evince supportg the claim that homosexualy is a normal variant of human sexual orientatn as opposed to a mental disorr. The accatn of g outdated material and viatg to realms beyond the spe of one's expertise impli two thgs; first, impli that there actually is rmatn that is more up-to-date than what the nun prented on the topic of homosexualy, and sendly impli that there are credible experts who are more qualified to teach or speak on the topic of homosexualy. When one brows the Inter, one will see that apparently many of the so-lled experts on mental disorrs claim that there is a signifint amount of scientific evince support of the claim that homosexualy is not a mental disorr.

Hence, is necsary to provi a summary and analysis of that purported up-to-date scientific evince which supports the claim that homosexualy is not a mental two groups that are typilly emed thorative and credible experts on mental disorrs the Uned Stat are the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn; th, I will prent their stanc on homosexualy and then analyze the “scientific evince” that they claim supports their stanc. As a rult of their ficienci, the credibily of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn and the APA, at least their claims regardg human sexualy, is lled to Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric AssociatnI will beg by scribg the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and I will then prent their stanc on the topic of homosexualy. Dog so will provi more evince of the stance of both the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Two Associatns’ Stance on HomosexualyThe APA wr:Same-sex sexual attractns, behavr, and orientatns per se are normal and posive variants of human sexualy— other words, they do not dite eher mental or velopmental disorrs.

2009, 15) Brief of Amici Curiae for both the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn siar language:Des of rearch and clil experience have led all mastream mental health anizatns this untry to the ncln that homosexualy is a normal form of human sexualy. (Brief of Amici Curiae 2003, 1)Hence, the basic stance of the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn is that homosexualy is not a mental disorr but is rather a normal form of human sexualy, and they propose that their stance is based on signifint scientific evince. )Aled KseyThe APA Task Force document proceeds by cg two books wrten by Aled Ksey 1948 and 1953 (Sexual Behavr the Human Male and Sexual Behavr the Human Female):At the same time that the pathologizg views of homosexualy Amerin psychiatry and psychology were beg dified, untervailg evince was accumulatg that this stigmatizg view was ill found.