2007-12-28 05:17:28 · 3 answers · asked by Post Girl 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Sadly it is not be a crime to be transphobic, as much as it is not a crime to be racist. However, it would be a crime to act upon your hatred in a manner that will cause harm to another person or to treat them less favourably because they are Transgendered.
Whether that crime can be successfully prosecuted depends on the evidence available, the nature of the offence and the laws in the area where the crime was committed.
For example: It is an offence to sack someone in the UK because they are diagnosed as Transsexual, but in some states in the USA it is quite legal.
Do you think it is all right for people to have their houses burnt to the ground just because they were born different?
2007-12-28 06:59:44 · update #1
Transphobia (or less commonly, transprejudice) refers to discrimination against transsexuality and transsexual or transgender people, based on the expression of their internal gender identity. There is no crime in being Transphobic, although if a police officer, employer, store owner treats a person differently due to their phobia a person could seek civil action. But like I said it’s not defined anywhere as a crime other than if certain people or businesses were discriminatory.
2007-12-28 05:24:41 · answer #1 · answered by Mr and Mrs Doe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
also known more commonly as transprejudice.
those who hate transsexuals or cross dressers.
the problem is the person who is a cross dresser is commonly mistaken as a homosexual and is thus assaulted as a hate crime, murdered, abused, taunted, verbally slandered etc.
2007-12-28 05:26:13 · answer #2 · answered by ahsoasho2u2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that is when you are afraid to drive a car with a standard transmission......
2007-12-28 06:30:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋