This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Make deliberately misgendering someone a hate crime.
Deliberately misgendering someone undermines their gender identity, therefore it can be considered transphobic in malicious contexts. This is therefore discrimination and harmful to trans-peoples' mental health and well-being. It should therefore be made a hate crime and banned.
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Misgendering, is when a name or pronoun is used about a person (often a transgender person) which does not correctly reflect their gender identity. This undermines the person's identity and can be considered transphobic in malicious contexts. This is therefore discrimination and harmful to trans-peoples' well-being as it creates a hostile environment for them. This can affect their mental health and it therefore should be made a hate crime. Whenever this is done it should be prosecuted.
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The act of deliberating mis-gendering someone is already a hate crime, if a court determines that this act demonstrated hostility based on that person's transgender identity, or that it was motivated by hostility based on their transgender identity.
You can find out more about which acts constitute a hate crime here: https://www.cps.gov.uk/crime-info/hate-crime.
You might like to sign this petition which calls for a related action:
Create a specific offence of stirring up hatred on grounds of Gender Identity: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/617842
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