The GOP’s Attack on LGBTQ Americans, Revealed

ALT The reality facing LGBTQ+ people in the UK today is one of rising hate and escalating violence - the Government's own figures indicate that hate crimes have more than doubled in the past 5 years. There is an urgent need for our leaders to address this, not just in Scotland but across Britain, because everyone deserves to feel safe. We already have long-standing laws preventing the incitement of hatred on the basis of race and religion, and the new Hate Crime Act creates parity in the law in Scotland by expanding these protections to cover sexual orientation, transgender identity, age and disability. The PM, and high-profile commentators, are incorrect when they suggest that misgendering or 'stating facts on biology’ would be criminalised. This is no more true than stating that the existing law has criminalised the criticism of religion. This kind of misrepresentation about the Act and its purpose only serves to trivialise the violence committed against us in the name of hate.













