Puddy_Tat
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Trans panic defence is still a thing in both UK and US courts.
sadly, i'm not all that surprised, although i couldn't find a recent uk case when i had a (fairly quick) look
Trans panic defence is still a thing in both UK and US courts.
I assume you only mean in the UK as its existence in the US is very well known.Can you give any examples of cases where it has be used successful?
Trans panic defence is still a thing in both UK and US courts.
I assume you only mean in the UK as its existence in the US is very well known.
This is what came up on Google in the first 2 or 3 hits - I didn't dig in further. It's just something, if you're trans, you hear about a lot.
I have no doubt people will try them but I'm suprised either is a useful defence of any kind.I assume you only mean in the UK as its existence in the US is very well known.
This is what came up on Google in the first 2 or 3 hits - I didn't dig in further. It's just something, if you're trans, you hear about a lot.
'Trans panic' accepted by UK judge despite also confirming hate crime - Trans Writes
A deeply distressing incident transpired on Oxford Road, Reading, in which a teenager violently assaulted a transgender woman, inflicting injuries thattranswrites.world
Are you doubting that gay panic defence is a thing or is it just specifically the trans variant you are doubtful of, because surely if one exists then the other is very likely to exist?
So murderous arseholes who just wanted to kill someone.Both guilty
Teenagers guilty of ‘senseless’ murder of transgender girl Brianna Ghey
Murder-obsessed 16-year-olds convicted of killing girl who was stabbed 28 times in Warrington parkwww.theguardian.com
Isn’t the murderer Girl X female?It's revealing how many people are eager to play down the transphobic element of this tragedy. The claim seems to be that Brianna wasn't killed explicitly because she was trans and therefore transphobia isn't a factor. But that's not how this shit works. Men rarely kill women 'just' because they are women but that doesn't mean misogyny doesn't usually play a key role. A woman's life is viewed as worth less, or as someone who was in some way deserving of the violence at least in the mind of the murderer. I doubt many would have challenged the view that misogyny had played a role in this crime had Brianna been a cis girl and the boy found to have made a string of misogynist comments.
The boy used dehumanising language about Brianna on several occasions. He thought she was less somehow because she was trans. Just like he did with the other potential victims, he believed one was gay and one a paedophile. And he wasn't born believing trans or gay people to be worth less or akin to child abusers, he was taught that. So perhaps understandable why in a society where transphobia drips daily from the mouths of politicians, the media and a small but very vocal (and often privileged and influential) minority that so many are eager to deny that this could possibly have influenced a child who murdered a trans girl he had previously made transphobic and violently objectifying comments about.
Yes. What's your point?Isn’t the murderer Girl X female?
It's revealing how many people are eager to play down the transphobic element of this tragedy.
Had a look on Mumsnet, most of the responses are along the lines of, 'I can't believe they're using this totally random and senseless murder to push their gender ideology'. So I guess not wanting people to be murdered because of who they are is an 'ideology' now.
Had a look on Mumsnet, most of the responses are along the lines of, 'I can't believe they're using this totally random and senseless murder to push their gender ideology'. So I guess not wanting people to be murdered because of who they are is an 'ideology' now.
Detective Superintendent Mike Evans, head of crime at Cheshire Police, told the Mail after the trial concluded: 'If it was not Brianna, it would have been one of the other four children on the list.
'It is just Brianna was the one who was accessible at that time and the focus of those desires.
'In a strange way Girl X was obsessed with Brianna, almost attracted and intrigued by her. With Boy Y, there is some really horrific and dehumanising transphobic comments. He added: 'Brianna was not killed because she was transgender, but the fact that she was transgender made her a bit more vulnerable and accessible.
My point is that the quoted post made it sound like the murderer was a boyYes. What's your point?
There were two, "girl X" and "boy Y"My point is that the quoted post made it sound like the murderer was a boy
A very limited number for the last eighteen months. It is usually just the final sentencing thats allowed.Didn’t know any UK court proceedings were televised?