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Our briefing ahead of tomorrow's Stage 1 debate on the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill focuses on two areas: the exclusion of sex from the hate crime protected characteristics, and aspects of the extension of the offence of stirring up hatred. https://murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2020/12/14/briefing-for-stage-1-debate-hate-crime-and-public-order-scotland-bill/
We draw attention to continuing omission of sex as a characteristic protected under the bill.
We argue that the default position should be to include sex, until any alternative proposals have been developed, consulted on and enacted, as a result of the work of the planned Working Group on Misogynistic Harassment.
We draw MSPs' attention to the unusually deep disagreement about what should be described as hate in relation to the characteristic of transgender identity.
