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The main thing is that, without her knowledge and behind the scenes, over a period of time there were some arguments about whether or not that deserved an NCHI. Instead, in her file is written, “Crime: harassment motivated by transphobia because of misgendering. No action”. That was not a non-crime hate incident but it was generated in relation to a non-crime hate incident. So can the Minister assure us that the habit of recording non-crime will not merely be replaced by the word “crime” and that the creation of a shadow Orwellian crime-recording procedure with no due process will not replace getting rid of non-crime hate incidents? I want to see the back of them, but I fear that the ideology that has informed them is well and truly alive and kicking, and that needs to be tackled too.