Human Rights Campaign reports at least 32 transgender people have been killed in the U.S. in 2022 after record number of transgender deaths in 2021.
"You don't sit in a courtroom every day and hear about someone who is not dissimilar from you and what they endured because people hated who she was. And that's kind of how you are too," she added.
In 2014, California became the first state in the nation in banning the trans panic defense. 16 states now prohibit it.Last year, Human Rights Campaign Foundation reported 57 deaths of transgender and gender non-conforming people, a record number of deaths. Salcedo founded TransLatin@ Coalition, a service agency that provides legal services, housing services and workforce development to transgender people in Los Angeles.
"I just want to do away with blaming us for our deaths," explained Joaquin Remora, director of Our Trans Home SF, a program that runs housing specifically for transgender individuals. Earle said sometimes men are sexually attracted to a trans woman but then feel shame and that makes them act out violently.
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