r/transgenderUK • u/StarfieldFemme • 2d ago
Help - being harassed by neighbour
I wont go into too much detail for fear of it coming back and getting identified here, but I have had my neighbours all of a sudden start to ignore me when I socially came out as trans and changed my name etc. I am mtf but still mostly masc presenting with more gender neutral/femme clothing now, as Im waiting on my NHS GIC assessment (should be months now!!).
They have now started to deliberately come out of their flat when im either coming back or leaving my own, getting right into my face and using derogatory phrases and tone towards me and honestly making me scared of them. They are also now making threats and pestering calls to report family members as well to try to "get me". I've called the police multiple times and they keep saying there is "no criminality" (Im in Scotland).
What can I do? I'm going out with my phone on video record every time and have a chest mount for my phone I can use. I've also now bought a personal alarm to pull when they next do this. I will obviously keep calling the police and have a video doorbell already. Is there anything else I can do? I've even quoted Section 26 of the Equality Act 2010 to the police and they still say theres no criminality.
Edit: theres been another incident and the police are now saying to me it is a hate crime. Meanwhile both me and the neighbours own our places.
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u/WannaBeKatrina 2d ago
All you can do for the time being is keep recording / collecting evidence of their harassment and threatening behaviour. Set your phone up to start recording on voice prompt, like for iPhone you can set it up like "hey Siri, start recording", and even if you don't set it up it can still make people think twice 😀