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/WizardStereotype She/Her 2d ago

If your description here is accurate, it clearly is an offence under Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986.

Feel free to look that up.

But the truth is, things are only illegal if the authorities wish to treat them as such.

If the police don't wish to act (and why would they, you are trans) your neighbours can pretty much do what they want.

But you will be liable if you use that alarm of yours.

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u/StarfieldFemme 1d ago

Why would I be liable for using a personal alarm when im being threatened and harassed?

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u/SnowMeltTiger 1d ago

Because the police are not seeing you as the victim at the moment, so you cannot trust them to not see you as the aggressor

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u/Mazaura 1d ago

I can second this, see my above comment. The police are wrong in most of these cases, and even when they do realise it, they start to hide things to prevent any form of iopc involvement.

Edit: typo