trans panic defense
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Modelled on earlier gay panic defense.
Noun
[edit]trans panic defense (plural trans panic defenses)
- (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.