Reports of increasingly violent incidents are really astounding. What can we do to prevent another Matthew Shepard? … There had been no bill passed that had the word sexual orientation or gender identity in our federal statutes [before the Hate Crime Statistics Act]. … right, like voting. So the federal government literally could only intervene prior to the passage of the Matthew Shepard, James Byrd Hate Crimes Act. (26:49–27:30)
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Asserts that before the Hate Crime Statistics Act, no federal bill included "sexual orientation" or "gender identity."
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