The ‘gay/trans panic’ legal defense allows a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity to be used as a justification for why a defendant violently attacked their victim.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/why-do-all-my-gop-state-reps-support-the-trans-gay-panic-defense-215254be6e90?sk=a869dc404d60af62d13e121df34c47d0
@prismnpen I wish the article had actually cited legislative language, or legal language, or case law, or whatever so we could see the actual details of the defense.
Without that it's hard to identify solutions, as we'd need new language to modify existing language, which like I said, means we need to see the legal language.
The anecdotes are fine to illustrate what we need to address, but without presenting the broken piece leading to those outcomes we can't really talk about how to best fix it.
@volkris
The article writer isn't a lawyer or legislator, and is writing about the personal costs. Anyway, the Dems are going to pass the law, so this is already fixed.