To welcome this and think it's long overdue

[LakieLady]

www.theguardian.com/law/2021/may/16/labour-proposes-new-offences-for-violence-against-women-and-girls

I've never understood why hate crime can apply to violence against most groups of people who have a protected characteristic, when that characteristic was the reason for the attack, but not to sex.

I think this would be a really positive step for women.

But Labour can’t define what a woman is, so their law would be unintelligible and unenforceable.

@Babdoc

But Labour can’t define what a woman is, so their law would be unintelligible and unenforceable.

This is unfortunately true. Whilst political parties refuse to acknowledge that Sex and Gender are different, the promise of sex-based protections and laws are meaningless.

If Labour start to properly define women in sex based terms again, I’ll start listening to them. Until then I’m not listening to anything they have to say on any subject.

@Babdoc

But Labour can’t define what a woman is, so their law would be unintelligible and unenforceable.

I too wonder what their draft proposals would look like when they can't mention "women", "females", "males" etc, and with this in mind, what the heck is their definition of "misogyny" - does it just end up as "the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against another person".