butjk rowling has managed to prove the point that for anybody who actually reads the legislation, there is a high threshold for criminality. so i wasn't at all shocked. i don't know anybody, really, who read the legislation that was shocked that police scotland would not... let me just ask you, if i may, a very simple question, cos you're first minister of scotland, your voice matters. is very publicly misgendering trans people — as those trans people would see it — misgendering trans people, is it threatening, abusive or insulting? look, i'm not going to be caught into this binary. it's deeply offensive. well, it's not binary... no... i'm trying to understand what this legislation — which you've championed — actually means. for the stirring up of hatred, your behaviour has to be either threatening or abusive and intended to stir up hatred. misgendering somebody is unlikely to end up to meet those high criminal thresholds. the thresholds are deliberately very high. misgendering somebody who's transgender, i think, is deeply offensive and upsetting, but the legislation isn't deal