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Ah, but how often are they victims of murder because of their gender? Femicide isn't just murdering a woman, the motivation counts.
Dedicating time and effort to focus on a special category of murder and implementing harsher punishments for perpetrators based on the demographic membership of the victim, feels counter to the equitable application of justice for a country at large.
Intentionally murdering a woman because she's a woman, is in my view little different from murdering a person for any of the other reasons that get lumped together under things like 'first degree' and 'second degree' murders. This legislation change isn't about making murder illegal -- it's always been illegal. It's about making the punishment more significant if the victim is a woman and the prosecution can prove the murderer had any anti-woman comments/viewpoints.
There are examples of women killing men because they're men -- there are a few famous, and more less-famous, cases where escorts, for example, kill their johns because they're easy targets. There are examples of minority groups killing majority groups because of clearly racist/hateful motives, that get excused because of the demographics of the perp and the victim. The legislation change noted, basically says killing people is bad, but killing women is somehow worse -- ie. that the genders aren't equally treated, and women are worth more / require more protection. To apply harsher punishments unevenly based on demographics is not what I'd consider a fair and impartial system -- it's one that's been engineered to preference the protected group's interests over the interests of the broader whole.
Besides, men get killed 2-5x more frequently than women in many western countries -- why are we trying to protect the gender that has far better overall results? This is sorta a gender equivalent to giving tax breaks to the rich -- they already have it better than others, why give them even more privilege? Add more supports to the demographic that has terrible stats in this area.