“There is a direct correlation between the use of hate speech in politics and hate crimes,” the Social Justice Center, a Tbilisi-based human rights group, said in its statement reacting to the murder.
“It has been almost a year that the Georgian Dream government has been aggressively using homo/bi/transphobic language and cultivating it with mass propaganda means,” it added.
This headline linking the signing of a piece of paper to the murder of a woman really rubs me the wrong way.
I’m not going to pretend anyone at the guardian has a good analysis on anything, especially trans people.