Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf has stated the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 will take care of a “rising tide of hatred”.
The brand new regulation creates a brand new crime of “stirring up hatred” referring to age, incapacity, faith, sexual orientation, transgender identification or being intersex.
The regulation doesn’t defend girls as a bunch from hatred – the Scottish authorities is predicted to incorporate this later in a separate misogyny regulation.
Creator JK Rowling described a number of transgender girls as males on the day of the brand new hate crime regulation got here into pressure.
Hatred based mostly on race, intercourse and faith was already unlawful in Nice Britain below the Public Order Act 1986, however that will even now fall below the brand new act in Scotland.
