On 28 August 2025 we laid in draft an SSI to add the characteristic of sex to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021.If passed, it will make it an offence for a person to stir up hatred against women and girls, and where an offender is motivated by, or demonstrates, malice and ill-will towards women and girls in committing a criminal offence, that offence will be aggravated by prejudice relating to the characteristic of sex.This SSI is subject to super...