I’m a Canadian, so the only hate speech laws that I care about are the ones for my country.
No I do not think intentional misgendering should be considered hate speech (in the legal sense)
I would absolutely fire an employee of mine for doing it though, even if I found out they did it outside of a work context.
Just because something isn’t illegal doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be consequences for it.
Iran’s government is the western definition of evil.
Celebrating deaths of dictators and war criminals is not a new phenomenon.