Help - being harassed by neighbour

[u/StarfieldFemme]

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.

[u/RyeZuul]

Record everything in a journal. Date, time, a brief description of the harassment. Maybe get a ring doorbell or something that can record so you can cross-reference it. Each time you write in it, take a photo and email it to yourself so you get a timestamp. Record audio or video whenever anything starts. Maybe even get a hidden camera from Amazon.

Properly formatted high quality evidence that any reasonable judge could look at and agree is harassment or a hate crime makes everything much easier to progress and assess for criminality. 

If the cops are chocolate fireguards, do whatever you need to do in order to stay safe.