Guilty!

It is to late for the woman he murdered but at least the jury convicted him and didn’t buy into his “self defense” story.

Washington state man found guilty in 2019 murder of transgender teen
USA Today
By Associated Press
August 29, 2021


VANCOUVER, Wash. — A 27-year-old man has been convicted of second-degree murder and a hate-crime offense in the death of a transgender teen in Washington state two years ago.

A Clark County Superior Court jury returned the verdict Friday against David Bogdanov, The Columbian newspaper reported.

Prosecutors said Bogdanov met 17-year-old Nikki Kuhnhausen in downtown Vancouver in June 2019, and that he strangled her with a phone charger cable after engaging in sexual contact in the back seat of his car and discovering she was transgender.

Kuhnhausen’s family and supporters exclaimed “Yes!” quietly and tearfully as the hate-crime verdict was read in court.
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Bogdanov, of Vancouver, claimed self-defense, testifying that he wrapped the cord around her shoulder to prevent her from reaching a gun he had near the driver’s seat after he ordered her to get out of the car. The cord slipped to her neck, he said.

But is justice served?

He faces a range of 11 to 19½ years in prison when he is sentenced Sept. 9, prosecutors said. His attorneys declined to comment until after the sentencing.

20 years for taking another person’s life? Is that justice?
Because of her death, a law banning trans/gay panic defenses was passed and named after her.

In March 2020, Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law House Bill 1687 — dubbed the Nikki Kuhnhausen Act — that prevents a criminal defense based on discovery of a victim’s actual or perceived gender identity or sexual orientation.

To bad that it took a death to pass the law.

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Once again our fiat is in the hands of nine people.

Supreme Court could hear transgender student bathroom case, experts say
Circuit courts may be split on rules that ban trans students from using the bathrooms of their gender identity, which could prompt the Supreme Court to step in.
NBC News
By Jo Yurcaba
August 27, 2021


A federal appeals court this week vacated a lower court's ruling in favor of a transgender student’s right to use the bathroom of his gender identity at school. Experts say the appeals court's move could lead the Supreme Court to take up the issue sometime soon.

Last year, a three-judge panel for the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 in favor of Andrew Adams, a transgender student in Ponte Vedra, Florida, who sued his school district in 2017 over a policy that barred him from using the bathroom of his gender identity.

His lawyers argued that the policy violated his rights under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Judge Beverly Martin, who wrote the majority opinion, agreed.

On Monday, however, the full 11th Circuit Court, based in Atlanta, vacated that ruling in a majority vote, meaning that all 12 judges will now hear the case again. Experts said that, given the court's conservative bent, the rehearing probably won’t go in Adams’ favor.

“Given the theological makeup of the 11th Circuit and given the way that they granted a rehearing here, I would say it’s pretty likely that there is a majority of the justices who will say that the school district has the right to make this decision,” said Paul Smith, a law professor at Georgetown University who also argued the landmark Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, which found sodomy laws unconstitutional in 2003.

Sad… Sad… That our right to use the bathroom of our gender is being questioned again.

You may remember that we won a victory in the Hobby Lobby case for trans employee to use the bathroom of her gender identity and that the Supreme Court has leaned our way a couple of times on Title VII and Title IX cases.

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And lastly a great big victory for Gavin Grimm, maybe other school boards may see the light now that it hit them in their pocketbooks.

Virginia school board to pay $1.3 million in transgender student's suit
Gavin Grimm argued that a Virginia district's policy denying him access to the boys' restroom was discriminatory. He was assigned female at birth.
NBC News
By Dennis Romero
August 28, 2021


A school district in Virginia has agreed to hand over $1.3 million after fighting a discrimination lawsuit filed by a transgender student for more than five years ago.

The American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday that the Gloucester County School Board has been ordered to pay the money to cover attorneys' fees and costs in the case involving onetime student Gavin Grimm, whom it represented.

The board said in a terse statement that its insurance provider has "addressed" the order. The board and the superintendent did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday.

Congratulations on a battle well fought!