Posted on 05/27/2004 6:09:18 PM PDT by take
Conn. enacts transgender hate crime law
SUMMARY: Connecticut joined seven other states that protect transgender people in hate crime laws when Republican Gov. John Rowland signed the legislation last Friday.
Connecticut joined seven other states that protect transgender people in hate crime laws when Republican Gov. John Rowland signed the legislation last Friday.
The state Senate unanimously passed the inclusive hate crimes bill in April, after the House had passed the bill 139-4. Many of the legislators who signed onto the bill, including the co-chair of the joint Senate and House Judiciary Committee (news - web sites), Sen. Andrew J. McDonald, said they supported it because of moving testimony from members of the transgender community.
"It makes you realize that bitterness and hatred is still present in our society, and we need to respond to it," said McDonald from the House floor.
One of the statistics cited in testimony in favor of the bill was that about 60 percent of transgender people are victims of violence solely due to their actual or perceived gender identity. Another study mentioned in the testimony showed a 49 percent increase in the number of incidents reported nationally by transgender hate crime victims to anti-violence programs between the years of 1997 and 1998.
Police officers who testified in favor of the legislation said the bill wouldn't add anything to their workload, and it may give them yet another tool to help victims of such crime.
Connecticut's hate crime law already enhances the penalties for crimes committed against people or their property due to ethnicity, religion, real or perceived race and sexual orientation. Sexual orientation was added into the law in 1987.
The new provision to Connecticut's hate crimes law goes into effect Oct. 1. The other states to include transgender people in their hate crimes statues include California, Hawaii, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Vermont.
"Connecticut was one of those states where we had to go back and add actual or perceived gender identity, in many states we haven't been able to go back," said Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, who lobbied for the legislation. "Fortunately, this is becoming less and less of a partisan issue. It's really simple, but legislators and state governments are finally learning that its not OK to kill or attack someone just because you don't like their actual or perceived gender identity or expression."
That is so stupid! There are already laws that protect so-called "transgendered" folks, laws that protect everyone! This is just redundant nonsense!
(steely)
Just pack the books with laws and before you know it waking up in the AM will constitute a crime in the making.
One of the statistics cited in testimony in favor of the bill was that about 60 percent of transgender people are victims of violence solely due to their actual or perceived gender identity
Maybe its because they fool some guy into thinking they are a girl and then when the guy finds out he gets kind of annoyed (it was a recent story were this happened)
how many trannys are thier in conn. 12??
No wonder Conn doesnt have a hockey team anymore, they are all sissys
go whalers
Sexual diversity bump.
Why would anyone hate the transgendered, They should be pitied no hated. poor folks dont like their plumbing so they take drugs and either cut it off or have one built. Pathetic. Pschycho's. They need mental therapy, not a huge surgical bill from some quack doctor with nothing better to do than mess with genitalia. Hate them ? No they are poor pethetic creatures.
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Ah...... talk about your hate crimes..... it isn't a crime when someone's property is vandalized simply because they are a republican, or a troop supporter, or because they may fly the American Flag in their yard, nope.....not a hate crime! Targeting a person for a specific reason does not a hate crime make.....not if the targeted person loves the USA, and wants the USA to defeat terrorism!
Good point! Such crimes are permissible!
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