Beaver [she/her] to [email protected]English • 1 month agoMichigan Becomes 20th State to Ban Gay and Trans Panic Defense: A Milestone for LGBTQ+ Rightswww.transvitae.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down10
arrow-up1108arrow-down1external-linkMichigan Becomes 20th State to Ban Gay and Trans Panic Defense: A Milestone for LGBTQ+ Rightswww.transvitae.comBeaver [she/her] to [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-square@lmaydevlink18•edit-21 month agoIt’s not incredibly common from what I can gather. Cases are likely in the 100s over the last few decades. But the fact you can murder someone and say you were scared because they were gay as a defense is completely indefensible. Imagine if a gay person used this as a defense for murdering a straight person. People would lose their collective shit.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 month agoImagine if someone kills a person and then goes like ‘that because I felt gay that day, silly’
It’s not incredibly common from what I can gather. Cases are likely in the 100s over the last few decades.
But the fact you can murder someone and say you were scared because they were gay as a defense is completely indefensible.
Imagine if a gay person used this as a defense for murdering a straight person. People would lose their collective shit.
Imagine if someone kills a person and then goes like ‘that because I felt gay that day, silly’