Andrew Doyle on R4 Today programme on Scottish Hate Crime Bill

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A decent segment, highlighting the issues and far reaching nature of this bill. Even the guy who was meant to be supporting the legislation said it needed further clarification.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lmyt

Aamer Anwar's main argument seemed to be that since hate is bad, the more law you can have and the wider its scope the better. The telling comment he made as that many significant Scottish legal institutions support the bill, well, actually, they support parts of the bill.

What time was the discussion?

Try 2:48 according to the playback timer.

About 8.40-8.50am-ish? Sorry, didn't notice the exact time

Sand in the list , peoples gender identity is one of those to be protected. Given the wide ranging meaning of this it covers just about anybody ...

Sand? Mentioned !

I am pretty sure it isn’t gender identity, it is transgender identity