Overlay · Sexual orientation / gender identity

Sexual orientation / gender identity

Same machinery: a protected-class sticker + a contextual hostility test + institutional duty to police. UK Forstater / For Women Scotland are the named pushback venues.

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Supported

Live in some hate statutes (UK POA Part 3A sexual orientation; Canada identifiable group includes gender identity or expression). Gender-critical speech cases are the pushback record, not a US Title VI theory.

Not a listed-speech offence. Do not collapse gender-critical political speech into one.

Sticker on the hate-propaganda machine, not on a listed-speech offence.

Creep row

Classification by sector. Live means a quoted instrument. Architecture means the statute already covers the sector. Unproven means no pack.
Overlay	Criminal speechDirect offence	EducationSchools / campus	EmploymentWorkplace duty	PlatformsOSA / DSA / duty of care	Other fundedHousing, health, transit	ImmigrationStatus bar	Police recordingBelow-crime incidents	ProgrammePrevent / exchanges
Sexual orientation / gender identity	Live, cited	Pointed, not quoted	Pointed, not quoted	Pointed, not quoted	Unproven	Unproven	Live, cited	Unproven

Live, cited
Documented hop
Architecture only
Pointed, not quoted
Not this form
Unproven

This is a pattern grid over cited instruments, not a completed worldwide fact. Hover a cell where a note exists. Open a sticker for the quoted clause.

Police recording · Live, cited
England and Wales NCHI Code lists transgender identity as a particular characteristic. Live until revocation attached. Below-crime recording is not a listed-speech offence.

Cited venues for this sticker

10 venues with a cited mark. Open a region, then a country. Unproven cells stay off this list. A dash is a cited finding that this form is not the quoted law.

Crime — criminal speech or hate offence, cited
Duty — institutional / funding / platform duty
Def. — working definition imported
Prog. — programme, not a statute
— not this form

Quoted clauses

Also in the matrix

Live statuteSupportedATRacial hatred

§ 283

Strafgesetzbuch

Target: Verhetzung — public incitement to violence or hatred against a protected group
Test: Public, accessible to many people. Grounds include race, colour, language, religion or belief, nationality, descent, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation.
Max: 2 years; 3 if broad public; 6 months to 5 if violence follows

Live statuteSupportedCHRacial hatred

Art. 261bis

Swiss Criminal Code

Target: Discrimination and incitement to hatred
Test: Public incitement to hatred or discrimination on race, ethnic origin, religion, or sexual orientation; including genocide denial/trivialisation; and refusal of a public service on those grounds.
Max: Custodial sentence not exceeding 3 years or a monetary penalty

Live statuteSupportedDKHate umbrella

§ 266 b

Straffeloven

Target: Public statements threatening, insulting, or degrading a group
Test: Public, or intent to spread more widely. Grounds: race, colour, national or ethnic origin, belief, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or sex characteristics.
Max: Fine or 2 years; propaganda is an aggravating circumstance

Live statuteSupportedFIHate umbrella

11 luku 10 §

Rikoslaki

Target: Ethnic agitation — kiihottaminen kansanryhmää vastaan
Test: Making available or distributing a message that threatens or insults a group, or incites violence or hatred, on listed grounds.
Max: Fine or 2 years

Live statuteSupportedIERacial hatred

s.2

Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989

Target: Actions likely to stir up hatred
Test: Publish/distribute, or use words/behaviour/display outside a private residence, that are threatening, abusive or insulting and intended or, having regard to all the circumstances, likely to stir up hatred.
Max: See s.6 of the same Act (not quoted here)

Live statuteSupportedNLRacial hatred

art. 137d

Wetboek van Strafrecht

Target: Incitement to hatred, discrimination, or violence against a protected group
Test: Public oral, written, or pictorial incitement. Protected grounds include race, religion or belief, sex, hetero- or homosexual orientation, and disability.
Max: 1 year (2 if habitual or joint)

Live statuteSupportedNOHate umbrella

§ 185

Straffeloven

Target: Discriminatory or hateful utterances
Test: Intentional or grossly negligent public utterance. Includes symbols. Definition: threaten or insult, or promote hatred, persecution, or contempt on listed grounds.
Max: Fine or 3 years (public); 1 year if not public but in another’s presence

Live statuteSupportedSEHate umbrella

16 kap. 8 § (SFS 2024:340)

Brottsbalken

Target: Hets mot folkgrupp — agitation against a population group
Test: A statement or other message that is spread, urging violence against, threatening, or expressing contempt for a group (or a person in it) with reference to race, colour, national or ethnic origin, creed, sexual orientation, or transgender identity or expression.
Max: 2 years; gross 6 months to 4 years