The gay/trans panic legal fense legimiz and exc vlent and lethal behavr agast members of the LGBTQ+ muny. The fense is fed by the LGBT Bar as “a legal strategy which asks a jury to fd that a victim’s sexual orientatn or genr inty is to blame for the fendant’s vlent reactn, cludg murr.”
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THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
A lonial-era law outlaws gay sex the untry, many LGBTQ people ntue to be victims of vlence om hate crim. PHOENIX (AP) — The first study of s kd found that people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer or genr non-nfirmg are nearly four tim as likely to be victims of vlent crime than those outsi such muni.