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How many states have banned the gay/trans “panic” defense in court?
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Hint: Last week, Governor Ralph Northam signed a law last week banning the defense in Virginia, becoming the first southern state (but not the first state) to do so. The bill’s author, Delegate Danica Roem, said of the law, “What we were showing was, sometimes things are so egregious that when we have this universal acknowledgement that this shouldn’t be happening, we codify that. And so that’s what we did with this bill.”
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