I had a look for evidence of what they were talking about and found it here:
www.cps.gov.uk/yorkshire-and-humberside/news/yorkshire-and-humberside-hate-crime-sentence-uplift-examples
The defendant smashed a window at his mother’s house after being told he was no longer welcome there after taking drugs. He then smashed the glass in his uncle’s front door. He let himself in to his mother’s house a couple of days later despite being told not to return and he assaulted his mother. He was arrested and whilst in custody, he made transphobic remarks to a police officer and shouted racist abuse at another suspect who was in police custody. He pleaded guilty at the first hearing to assault by beating, using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress and two counts of criminal damage. He was sentenced to a total of 32 weeks’ imprisonment, which included two concurrent sentences of 16 weeks for the transphobic and racial offences, uplifted from 12 weeks. He was also ordered to pay a £128 victim surcharge."
So apparently the 'transphobic hate crime' was a drug addict who smashed up various family members houses, and then said rude words in custody.
The defendant headbutted the victim outside a nightclub. Later that night, he punched the victim in the face rendering him unconscious. There had been previous tension between the two parties as the victim, a trans man, was in a relationship with defendant’s ex-girlfriend and the defendant had made transphobic comments in the past. On this occasion, the defendant called the victim by his former female name immediately before headbutting him. The victim sustained a fractured eye socket and cheekbone, a cut under his eye and a blood clot behind his eye. The defendant pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and inflicting grievous bodily harm. He was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment, suspended for 24 months, with the starting point increased by two months by way of an uplift. He was also sentenced to a 20-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, 150 hours’ unpaid work and a three-month curfew. He was also ordered to pay a £149 victim surcharge and £3,000 compensation. A Restraining Order was also imposed.
This is a violent man who attacked his ex's new partner. The victim appears to identify the new partner as female, which suggests that this is fundamentally motivated by lesbophobia/homophobia/misogyny
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www.cps.gov.uk/yorkshire-and-humberside/news/cps-yorkshire-and-humberside-hate-crime-sentence-uplift-examples-2
The defendant shouted homophobic and transphobic abuse at the victim outside the victim’s property whilst brandishing a large piece of wood before smashing a window. He was then abusive to the attending officers, shouting homophobic abuse at the female officers. His abusive behaviour continued inside the police car where he spat at the officers. He pleaded guilty at the first hearing to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear of or provoke unlawful violence, common assault of an emergency worker and criminal damage. He was sentenced to eight weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, uplifted from a community penalty. He was also ordered to pay £122 compensation and £85 costs. A 12-month Restraining Order was also imposed
Can't make any sense of this !?
Was anyone involved transgender? He shouted homphobic and transphobic words at the victim then also at the arresting police?
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www.cps.gov.uk/yorkshire-and-humberside/news/cps-yorkshire-and-humberside-hate-crime-sentence-uplift-examples-1
The defendant went to meet the victim at her house after exchanging messages on a dating app. On discovering the victim is transgender, the defendant became abusive and smashed a window. He pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage and was sentenced to a 12-week curfew uplifted from eight weeks and a 20-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement. He was also ordered to pay £200 compensation and a £90 victim surcharge
This one is clear - the defendant should not have committed criminal damage upon learning that his date was transgender.
- The defendant poured petrol through the victim’s letterbox and set fire to her property. The victim had previously had problems with the defendant, who repeatedly misgendered her. The defendant pleaded guilty to arson being reckless as to the endangerment of life. Due to the aggravating features in the case the Judge uplifted the sentence from a starting point of four years to five years and ten months’ imprisonment. A ten-year Restraining Order was also imposed (South Yorkshire).
See also
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-51552031
The attacker set fire to the victim's flat, due to transphobia. This is a horrific hate crime.
www.cps.gov.uk/cymruwales/news/transphobic-hate-crime-results-increased-sentence-mold-teenager
Declan Armstrong, 19, was on Chester Street in Mold when he abused the PCSO by shouting comments referring to the officer being transgender. The officer was on duty at the time and uniformed.
This was the case where the autistic teenager said ' 'Is it a boy or is it a girl?' about a police officer.
If you read some of the other hate crimes, a great number amount to people being rude to police officers. Obviously the police don't like people being rude to them, and if people use the wrong words, the police can score a hate crime conviction.
However it would seem to most people that the purpose of hate crime legislation is for cases like the transgender person whose flat was set on fire, not to protect police officer's feelings.
www.cps.gov.uk/north-east/news/cps-north-east-hate-crime-uplifts-august-2020
The Defendant, a youth, was convicted of causing intentional harassment/alarm/distress when he used insulting and derogatory transphobic language towards security staff. He was sentenced to a four-month referral order and a restraining order of twelve months. The court announced the sentence had been uplifted to reflect the transphobic nature of the offending.
The wording here is slightly odd, 'security staff' suggests multiple people. Were any of them actually transgender? It seems unlikely that they all were, and possibly none. A defendant harassing security guards is obviously antisocial and should be stopped, but it's not clear what is meant by 'transphobic nature of the offending' here.
www.cps.gov.uk/yorkshire-and-humberside/news/cps-yorkshire-and-humberside-hate-crime-sentence-uplift-examples-0
The defendant exposed himself to two trans women in a car park and masturbated in front of them. He was found guilty after trial of exposure. He was sentenced to a 12-month Community Order with a 20-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement and 300 hours’ unpaid work, uplifted from 150 hours. He was also ordered to pay £620 towards prosecution costs, a £90 victim surcharge, and to sign the Sex Offenders Register for five years
This case involved a man who went to a dogging car park and then masturbated at two transwomen. Although this is unpleasant for the victims, it is not really clear that this is a more serious crime than masturbating at two women.
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/17475551.transgender-miranda-yardley-innocent-hate-crime/
Miranda Yardley, a transgender person was tried and found not guilty of transphobia for disagreeing with a Mermaids member (who is not transgender) on Twitter
This was the FIRST transphobic hate crime prosecution in Britain, and a debacle, as it was a political attack on a transgender person who disagreed with medically transitioning children, against an advocate for the same, who was in the process of medically transitioning her child.
www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/15247662.darren-mcclean-jailed-for-vile-abuse-hurled-at-a-transgender-woman-at-a-caterham-supermarket/
Darren McClean, of Highdown Lane, made the transphobic comments about Phillipa Baker while they were shopping at a Caterham supermarket on Wednesday, March 15.
Ms Baker asked McClean to stop after he launched into a tirade of abuse, but the offensive remarks continued and the 38-year-old began to take pictures of her on his mobile phone.
Security staff intervened and removed McClean from the store following the confrontation, which left Ms Baker visibly shaken.
McClean later posted the images he had taken on Facebook and persisted in making hateful comments.
Following his arrest McClean pleaded guilty to abusive behaviour to cause harassment and was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at Guilford Crown Court on Friday, April 21.
Although clearly this is horrible transphobic behaviour, it's hard to imagine if he had made unpleasant comments about a woman and then mocked her on Facebook that he would get 12 months in prison.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8004175/Mother-called-transgender-woman-pig-wig-convicted-sending-offensive-tweets.html
This was a Twitter dispute with an idiot on the internet and should not have been tried.
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/2385808/woman-fined-after-making-abusive-comments/
Susan Montgomery pleaded guilty to acting in a threatening or abusive manner and making transphobic comments.
She chose to engage with a social media post made by Patricia Lockhart, a former councillor for Cowdenbeath on Fife Council.
The pair knew each through their work with the Scottish Labour party over a number of years.
“The accused posted a lengthy comment on the complainer’s Facebook page on the current state of the Labour Party and the complainer found it offensive.”
Montgomery’s comments revolved around the Labour Party’s attitude to trans women and her opinions on sharing certain spaces – such as changing rooms and hospitals – with trans women.
This seems like another of several cases of people being prosecuted for disagreeing with what transgender activists want.
It is not clear what amounts to transphobia here, though there might have been something; however given that she pled guilty and did not show up to court, that's far from a given. Often people subject to prosecutions such as this will plead guilty because it's a simple resolution.
She was fined £400.
I have tried to locate this, what I can find is that Patricia Lockhart, whose twitter is twitter.com/peter__lockhart but it's not clear whether this was a Twitter-related prosecution, or something else.
These are all the transphobic hate crime prosecutions I could find online for the UK with as much detail as I could find.