trans panic defense

English

Etymology

Modelled on the earlier gay panic defense.

Noun

trans panic defense (plural trans panic defenses)

  1. (informal, law) A claim of self-defense against an unwanted transgender sexual advance.
    • 2022, Loren Cannon, The Politicization of Trans Identity, page 99:
      The “trans panic defense” is an outgrowth of the “gay panic defense” that was first articulated by Edward J. Kempf, a clinical psychiatrist who wished to identify a particular mental disorder related to homosexuality.

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