Why Is 'Gay Panic Defense' Still A Thing?
June 10, 2017
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5:47Now PlayingWhy Is 'Gay Panic Defense' Still A Thing?
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as posted by the channel‘Gay Panic Defense’ is still legal in 48 states but some are trying to change that. Grace Baldridge, John Iadarola, Kim Horcher, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“Illinois is set to become the second state to outlaw gender identity and sexuality as motives for violence by defendants in court. What's holding the others behind?
In 2002, Gwen Araujo, a transgender woman, was brutally beaten to death at a house party in Newark, California by a group of men. The attack came after two of them, who had earlier had sexual relations with her, discovered she was a transgender woman.
Her case is striking not only for the lurid nature of her murder but for the fact that at trial, defendants tried to invoke a trans panic defense, a rare but indisputably toxic legal strategy. Similar in form to gay panic defenses, they seek to pin blame for violence and assault on one's sexual orientation or gender identity. Though not often successful—two juries rejected its use by Araujo's killers—they are troubling for the fact that in most states they're allowable at all.”
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Hosts: Grace Baldridge, John Iadarola, Kim Horcher
Cast: Grace Baldridge, John Iadarola, Kim Horcher
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