Hate Crime Laws

Jurisdictions with Transgender-Inclusive Hate Crime Laws
(The links below will take you directly to the respective state's statute when available)

• California (1998)

• Connecticut (2004)

• Ithaca, NY (2000)

• Hawai'i (2003)

• Maryland (2005)

• Minnesota (1988)

• Missouri (1999)

• New Hampshire (1997)

• New Jersey (2006)

• New Mexico (2003)

• Oregon (2007)

• Pennsylvania (2002)

• Vermont (1999)

 

Hate Crime Issues in the News:

September 2006 San Francisco, CA: The nation's first bill to address use of panic strategies, the Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act (AB 1160), was signed into law by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Authored by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber and Sponsored by Equality California, the bill puts California firmly on record as opposing a defendant's use of societal bias against their victim in order to decrease their own culpability for a crime.

Winter 2003 Southern Poverty Law Center: From their quarterly magazine, Intelligence Report, "Disposable People: A wave of violence engulfs the transgendered, whose murder rate may outpace that of all other hate killings". This article does exceptional report on hate crimes against transgendered people. 

September 5, 2003 Bitter tears over unnecessary deaths: Planet Out column by Gwendolyn Ann Smith on the D.C. violence wave against transgendered people.

July 24, 2000 Watershed of Mourning At the Border of Gender: By Nina Siegal, The New York Times.

 

US. jurisdictions that have passed non-discrimination laws

Jurisdictions with good case law

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