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UK Press outlets are choosing to focus on attempting to manufacture a “queer panic defense” in which the actions of the attackers are excused due to the victim’s gender identity or sexual orientation. While also actively ommitting details which harm that; such as the fact that this attacker was recording sex without consent or that the attack happened over a week after the sex act took place.

Tayla Smith, a transgender woman from Texas, narrowly escaped death when Kordel Stewart, a man she met on a dating app, attacked her during their first date.