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The 2019 murder of Nikki Kuhnhausen rocked our region's queer community, cutting through the myth of our progressive blue bubble and laying bare the violence of transphobia. A new play from Mikki Gillette, "American Girl" draws from deep conversations with Kuhnhausen’s mother to show her teenager daughter's real life.

Named for Washington teen Nikki Kuhnhausen, a push to ban the so-called trans panic defense, where defendants use a victim's gender identity as an excuse for violence, resulted in legislation called "Nikki's Law."

How the death of a young transgender woman inspired a law.