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Wash. OKs transgender hate-crime protection

By CURT WOODWARD Associated Press Writer OLYMPIA, Wash. — Attacks against transgender people could be prosecuted as hate crimes under a bill approved Wednesday by Washington’s Legislature. The state’s hate-crime law says it’s a felony to threaten, damage the property of, or physically injure someone because of ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, disability or sexual orientation. [...]

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