Hate by the numbers

[Mnemosyne]

Hate by the numbers
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/hate_by_the_numbers/6246/
By Andre Coleman  , Kevin Uhrich  08/07/2008

The second largest group of hate crimes — 111 — were motivated by sexual orientation. Of these, 92 percent targeted gay men and eight percent were anti-lesbian. Crimes motivated by gender more than doubled from seven to 15, all but one of them based on gender identity. Most targeted male-to-female transgender women, according to the report, and all the crimes targeting transgender victims were violent.

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emphasis added by me, you know to hammer home the fact that perhaps those who are perceived to be non-gender conforming might actually need some protection and law enforcement given additional tools/avenues to address the crimes.

[NicholeW.]

Might? O, I would imagine that they definitely DO need more legal protection. Of course given the Duanna Johnson video one might also think that a good weeding of that profession wouldn't be a half-bad idea to institute slightly before the new legal protections were to take place.

Nichole