Though the reasons behind the murder of Abramidze are yet to be figured out, Georgian civil societies have started raising their voices against it, connecting it with state campaigns against minorities in the country.

Human rights groups and the European Union have criticized the legislation, amid fears Georgia is moving closer to Russia.

One of Georgia's most well-known transgender women has been killed in her home, a day after the country's parliament passed a major anti-LGBT bill. Local officials say Kesaria Abramidze, 37, was stabbed to death in her flat in the capital, Tbilisi, on Wednesday.

A well-known Georgian transgender woman was stabbed to death in her apartment on Wednesday, authorities said, in a “premeditated” attack that came

Just a day after Georgia passed a controversial anti-LGBTQ law, prominent trans woman and TV personality Kesaria Abramidze was brutally murdered in her home, leaving the LGBTQ community in deep mourning.