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Partly simplicity. 'hate crime' is a lot easier to say than 'crime motivated by ignorance about a specific set of protected characteristics' Partly because your premise is wrong. It's not true there is an element of hate in all murders. There's fear, greed, jealousy, mania, psycopathy, and...

If the person being mouthy is trans it doesn't change anything. HT is answering the question 'what is a hate crime?' Your hypothetical is about media perception/reporting of hate crimes. Given the discussion around context of crimes helping to improve people/society/etc it certainly has a place...