At Basic Rights Oregon, as the state's leading LGBTQ advocacy organization,
we're working to ban the LGBTQ Panic Defense in Oregon and we need your help. 

Sponsored by Senator Rob Wagner, Senator Kate Lieber, Rep. Rob Nosse, and Rep. Marty Wilde, Senate Bill 704 seeks to ban the use of the LGBTQ panic defense, which is a legal strategy employed by a perpetrator that claims a victim's sexual orientation or gender identity is to blame for the defendant's violent reaction—even murder.

The legislation comes on the heels of 2020 being one of the deadliest years on record particularly for transgender people, with 44 people dying as a result of violent acts against them.

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