Norway has expanded its penal code that protected lesbian and gay people from hate speech to now include members of the trans and bisexual community.
Norway’s parliament backed the amendments to the 1981 legislation yesterday (10 November) without needing a vote, after it had been backed by parliamentarians in its first reading last week.
The amendments now protect gender, gender identity or expression from hate speech and changed the phrase “homosexual orientation” to “sexual orientation” in order to mean that people within the bi+ community were protected.
The existing penal code punished people with up to a year in jail for private remarks, and up to three years for public remarks.