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The sentencing hearing included victim impact statements from Ghey's parents and step-father. [ 72 ] [ 73 ] The court also heard updated assessments by psychiatrists of the perpetrators: Jenkinson has anti-social personality disorder rather than autism, [ 74 ] and that Ratcliffe has a "mild" form of autism spectrum disorder.
August 2019 – Pebbles LaDime "Dime" Doe, a 24-year-old transgender woman was shot and killed by Daqua Ritter in a rural area of Allendale County. During the four-day trial, federal prosecutors alleged Ritter was upset there were rumors out in the community about his sexual relationship with Doe, according to the release.
Civil rights groups and advocates condemned anti-LGBT policies and rhetoric, and called for an investigation of the Oklahoma State Department of Education, as well as the removal of Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction. Walters defended state policies and criticized responses to Benedict's death as politically motivated.
Kenyon Jones confessed to the murder, telling police that he had paid Pierson for sex, and after he found out she was transgender, he killed her in anger. [52] [53] He was convicted of second degree murder and armed criminal action, and was sentenced to 30 years in jail. [54] 2011 – Svetlana was a transgender woman from Moscow, Russia. She ...
On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee when 28-year-old Aiden Hale (born Audrey Elizabeth Hale), a transgender man and former student of the school, [5] [6] [7] killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot and killed by ...
Transgender [43] Elias Fritchley 2009 – 28 November 2021: 12 Shelbyville, Tennessee, US: Gay [44] Wilson Gavin 1999 – 12 January 2020: 21 Brisbane, Australia: Gay [45] William Toby Green 1997 – 12 December 2021: 26 Cardiff, Wales: Gay [46] Robert "Bobby" Griffith: 24 June 1963 – 27 August 1983: 20 Portland, Oregon, US: Gay [47] Ren Hang
In a sample of 84 transgender youth, those that reported being strongly supported by their parents, had a 93% lower suicide attempt rate (a 14-fold difference). [25] In a separate survey of nearly 34,000 LGBT youth, those with supportive families reported a suicide attempt rate that was less than half of those without supportive families. [26]
Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998. [1]