Weirdo

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The trans panic defense is a closely related legal strategy applied in cases of assault or murder of a transgender individual whom the assailant(s) had engaged with, or were close to engaging with, in sexual relations, and claim to have been unaware that the victim was transgender,[3][4][7] producing in the attacker an alleged trans panic reaction.[8][9] In most cases, the violence or murder is perpetrated by a heterosexual man to a heterosexual trans woman.[8][9]
Broadly, the defenses may be called the "gay and trans panic defense" or the "LGBTQ+ panic defense".[6][7][10]

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