Make deliberately misgendering someone a hate crime.

Rejected 9 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

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.

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

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.

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Timeline

13 Jul 2022	Petition opened for signatures
19 Jul 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 9

Status Rejected

Rejected 19 Jul 2022

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