In so far as is possible...

[catsittingstill]

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. 

Comments

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I don't even have to care whether freaking out is a perfectly natural response to discovering that someone is trans or not. Murder is not a reasonable or appropriate response to freaking out. If someone wants to go home and get the shakes over discovering that someone is actually trans, that is blessedly neither my problem nor that of whoever they're freaking about. As soon as their fists enter the picture, it becomes society's problem in a big hurry.

As someone else said, nice to see that the jury knows murder when it sees it.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, murder is not a reasonable response to freaking out either.

And yes, Howeird put it well.