@silence7@slrpnk.net to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish • 4 months agoMan found guilty of killing trans woman in historic hate crime verdict | A South Carolina man is the first person convicted by trial of a federal hate crime based on gender identitywapo.stexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down12
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minus-square@silence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilink7•4 months agoThere’s a bit of a history of not using hate crime laws to protect the transgender, and of states explicitly excluding targeting the transgender as a hate crime.
Wow. How is this a first?
There’s a bit of a history of not using hate crime laws to protect the transgender, and of states explicitly excluding targeting the transgender as a hate crime.