Hate crimes based on gender identity were up 32.9% year over year.

President Joe Biden spoke of a hate ‘through-line’ that, along with racism, bigotry and violence, has long plagued the nation.

Human rights advocate Victor Madrigal-Borloz said NGOs and human rights defenders have found at least 280 current legislative attempts at the local level that would lead to a regression of LGBT rights.

Republicans in Congress are more upset at the social media website than at their colleague’s blatant transphobia.

The number of anti-trans hate crimes reported in 2020 in the United States was much higher than in the previous year.

The process to apply for a federal security grant is burdensome for overworked clergy, and could slow enhanced protections for their congregants.

‘No community should live in fear because of who they are, where they are from, or what they believe, and it is our goal to make that a reality,’ Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in a statement.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy once opposed hate crimes laws of any kind.

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise made sure members of the GOP caucus voted against a resolution to condemn mass shootings in Georgia that killed eight people.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) repeatedly summoned racist tropes about the coronavirus and incessantly blamed China for the outbreak.

‘An attack on one group in our country is truly an attack on all of us,’ said Sen. Mazie Hirono.

‘Anti-Jewish hatred online never stays online,’ said Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress.

Republican state Rep. Vic Dabney opposed a hate crimes bill because he was tired of being ‘vilified’ for his ‘whiteness.’

A main criticism has been that the U.S. government vastly undercounts hate crimes because the FBI’s reporting system is voluntary.