From the Alabama Legislature’s website:
HB829
By Representative Holmes…
Under existing law, additional penalties are imposed against a person if the offense committed is motivated by the victim’s race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, or physical or mental disability.
This bill would provide for those additional penalties for a crime motivated by the victim’s sexual orientation.
You know what’s coming, right?
“(d) For purposes of this section, “sexual orientation” means heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality.“
From Gay City News:
The Alabama House has voted to add sexual orientation to the state’s hate crimes law and it was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee late last week. A vote on the Senate floor is expected on May 19.
Now, refer back to my item about the practical permutations of Wisconsin law.
‘Tain’t much that you’ll find in common ‘twixt Alabama and Wisconsin.
Of course, they do both have transsexual birth certificate statutes.
And, in both states (assuming the Alabama bill becomes law), a transsexual who gets physically assaulted whilst on her way to utilize said birth certificate statute because the assaulter can’t stand trannies, will not be the victim of a hate crime.
At least officially.
Even if the assaulter is a gay transphobic adherent of Raymond-Vincent exterminationism seeking to rid the world of a transsexual.
And if the transsexual fights back, the transsexual could conceivably be charged with a hate crime.
‘Equal’ protection in the Incrementalist Age.
Gotta love it.
Not.
