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Man 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 identity (wapo.st)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wow. How is this a first?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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.