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Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow
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I didn't see it mentioned in the article or elsewhere, but do you know what the hate crime charges were for? Maryland still doesn't include gender identity/expression in hate crime laws, and I know they were talking about falsely using race or sexual orientation as a grounds for hate crime charges. Did they actually recognise that this hate crime against Polis was because she was transgender, instead of falsely fitting it under sexual orientation or race?