A man in South Carolina was convicted last week on federal charges for the 2019 killing of a Black transgender woman in the nation's first gender identity-based hate crime trial.
The historic prosecution nearly five years after Pebbles LaDime "Dime" Doe's death granted the woman and her loved ones, who celebrated the guilty verdict on social media, justice via the legal system that trans and gender non-conforming Americans don't often receive. But experts caution that, in the current social and cultural climate, the trial is not enough.
