How to recognise it
- Insults or mockery about your gender, body, identity or orientation.
- Calls for violence or to “teach you a lesson”.
- Coordinated campaigns (many accounts at once) to silence you.
- Your photo shared with degrading comments.
What to do
- You don’t have to read everything: let someone you trust help you sort and document.
- Document the posts and accounts, especially those with incitement or threats.
- Use platform tools: word filters, comment limits, restrict or block accounts.
- Report: platforms ban hate speech based on gender, identity and orientation.
- Take a break: temporarily deactivate or make your account private until things calm down.
If the attack includes threats of violence or exposes your personal information, see Someone is threatening me — what do I do?
Hate says something about the person writing it, not about you.