What will ‘misogyny law’ actually look like?
Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Campaigners have been asking for misogyny to be treated as a hate crime for years and, in a concession to women's rights activists following the death of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, the government has now said it will require all 43 police constabularies in England and Wales to record crimes as a result of a person's sex or gender "on an experimental basis". The data collected from recording hate crimes motivated by sex or gender will "help us find solutions", said Williams on the wider social issue of violence against women and girls. Meanwhile, Scottish parliament just passed a new hate crime law, which includes crimes motivated by transgender identity or variations in sex characteristics and has added new offences for intentionally “stirring up hatred”. Hate crime laws traditionally protect minority groups, and minister Victoria Atkin asked if we would need to consider applying “sex” and “gender” to the entire population or just half of it?
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