Perhaps you're a freedom-of-speech fundamentalist, but to other people, who consider that this particular individual right does not automatically supersede all

Perhaps you're a freedom-of-speech fundamentalist, but to other people, who consider that this particular individual right does not automatically supersede all the others, hate crimes are a label for utterances and behavior that are likely to cause harm to groups or individuals. It may not be easy to define, and that's what the cause for alarm is. It's one thing to shout "kill all the <minority of choice>", and quite another to say "xir is not a pronoun" or "the prime minister has committed fraud."