About Gwen Araujo

Gwen Araujo, an American teen pre-operative transsexual woman, was murdered in Newark, California, in October 2002.She was slain by four men, two of whom they are already sexually intimate with that beat and strangled her after discovering she was biologically Male . Two of the defendants were convicted of second degree murder but not convicted on the basis of the requested improvements hate crime. The other two defendants pleaded guilty or no contest to voluntary manslaughter. In at least one of the tests, a trans-panic defense – an extension of the gay-panic defense – was employed.

The crime received widespread national and international attention and prompted some authors to write about the wearing of homophobia and transphobia on Araujo’s murder, along with questions and transgender people were fairly and accurately represented in both the media and criminal justice. Comment on the case was an impetus for legislative reform movements in several states. [9] [10] The events, including both criminal investigations, are portrayed in a TV movie, A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story [2]. [4] The murder was regularly compared with the case and Matthew Shepard was a rallying cause for the transgender and LGBT communities ultimately greater