On Friday 22nd March Dr Jane Hamlin, President Emerita of the Beaumont Society, appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme AntiSocial which was broadcast live at from 12:04 until 12:56. It is now available as a podcast on BBC Sounds. The topic was Misgendering and Hate Crime because on 1st April a law which was given the Royal Assent nearly three years ago came into effect. The law is the Hate Crime and Public Order Act (Scotland) 2021. You can listen to the programme here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001xfw6
Essentially the new law (in Scotland) establishes that a person commits an offence if they behave in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening, abusive or insulting, or stirs up hatred against a group of persons based on the group being defined by age, disability, religion race, colour, nationality (including citizenship), or ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, transgender identity, or variations in sex characteristics (previously known as intersex). Details of the Act can be read here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/14/contents
The Beaumont Society believes that is astonishing that there are people in the UK who clearly think that it is contrary to their human rights to be prevented from stirring up hatred against trans people, and fully supports the new legislation. The Beaumont Society also hopes that the Scottish Parliament will make haste in presenting a further Act that will outlaw offences of misogyny.