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Apr. 22nd, 2009 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillAngie 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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Date: 2009-04-24 02:32 am (UTC)