@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 7 months agoMichigan Becomes 20th State to Ban Gay and Trans Panic Defense: A Milestone for LGBTQ+ Rightswww.transvitae.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down10starcopymore-verticalflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
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minus-square@lmaydevlink18•edit-27 months 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. arrow-up118arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•7 months agoImagine if someone kills a person and then goes like ‘that because I felt gay that day, silly’ arrow-up13arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
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’