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No it does not and no it has not. I think that’s an inference you are drawing. Trans people get killed for many reasons. If they are killed for being trans then that is a hate crime. If they are killed because of a crime of passion, that is not hate crime.

I agree with regards to each crime being tragic, but behind that tragedy sits context. There are crimes of passion, vengeance and terror. Each is committed for different reasons and so shifts our understanding of crime. In the case of this girl, police believe she may have been killed because...

That is tragic. And it is tragic that we have far too many deaths among young people. Do we know why this young man was killed? It makes it no less tragic, but was he killed because of who he chose to identify as? Was he killed because of ethnicity or gender or ability? That would be good to...

I think she was killed because she was a young trans girl. She was killed because she was hated for who she was. That’s hate crime. I’m sure you don’t really need that explaining.