Disturbing post about the Domestic Violence Bill going through the HoLs on Monday
sex-matters.org/posts/single-sex-services/stonewalling-the-domestic-violence-bill-why-make-misogyny-gender-neutral/
An amendment to include misogyny as a hate crime is proposed. This is what Stella Creasey was consulting with Stonewall about.
The campaign to make misogyny a hate crime returns to the House of Lords next week as parliamentarians seek to ensure all police forces record the violence and harassment women face.
But the amendment doesn’t mention women at all, justpersons who “are of a particular sex or gender”
It doesn’t talk about counting crimes against women, but about crimes where sex-or-gender based hostility or prejudice is perceived by the victim or any other person. And it says the secretary of State must issue guidance “based on sex or gender” (remember, the guidance is the only place where the predominance of male perpetrators and female victims will be addressed).
Rather than telling the police to track crimes against women — or indeed male violence against women and their children– (which ought to be simple enough if you have a clear definition and a reliable data field for the sex of victims and perpetratrors) it instead makes misogyny “gender neutral” and perception based, and adds “and gender” wherever sex is mentioned.
What is the point of an amendment on misogyny that doesn’t mention women?
Why have Lord Cashman and Baroness Brinton put themselves down to speak on Monday?