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catsittingstill) wrote2009-04-22 06:59 pm
catsittingstill) wrote2009-04-22 06:59 pm
In so far as is possible...
Angie Zapata has justice.
For those who haven't been following this story, Angie Zapata was a transgender teen, murdered for being transgender. Lawyers for her assailant, Allen Andrade, claimed that he had freaked out in "trans-panic" on discovering that she had been born male, and beat her to death, first with his fists and then with a fire extinguisher, in the grip of that panic.
As if freaking out is a perfectly natural response to discovering that someone is trans.
Fortunately the jury got it.
For those who haven't been following this story, Angie Zapata was a transgender teen, murdered for being transgender. Lawyers for her assailant, Allen Andrade, claimed that he had freaked out in "trans-panic" on discovering that she had been born male, and beat her to death, first with his fists and then with a fire extinguisher, in the grip of that panic.
As if freaking out is a perfectly natural response to discovering that someone is trans.
Fortunately the jury got it.
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And yes, Howeird put it well.