Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell speaks in favor of the Gay and Trans Panic Legal Defense Bill at the state Capitol in Albany on Wednesday. Photo: Hans Pennink/AP
“The reality is that we as a community need to stand up and say we’re not going to take this,” said Assemblyman Danny O’Donnell, a Democrat from Manhattan who sponsored the bill. “We’re not going to say it’s OK to bash a trans woman’s head into a street in Harlem merely because they exist.”
June 19, 2019 at 05:52 PM
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Defendants accused of murder in New York will no longer be able to plead those charges down to manslaughter by saying their actions were the result of an extreme emotional disturbance on discovering that someone is gay or transgender.
Lawmakers in the state Legislature gave final passage to a bill Wednesday to remove that option, commonly called the “gay panic” or “trans panic” defense.
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