# Transgendered teen bound, strangled, beaten to death with shovel: Hate crime or not?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 1, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transgendered-teen-bound-strangled-beaten-to-death-with-shovel-hate-crime-or-not/158322 "2003-03-01T03:59:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transgendered-teen-bound-strangled-beaten-to-death-with-shovel-hate-crime-or-not/158322/301 "2003-03-11T00:30:44Z")

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You keep saying “provoked”. The only thing they were provoked to do was to pull up their pants and go home, metaphoricaly speaking.

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