by Sam Merriman, Daily Mail
Critics accuse police of making a ‘mockery of justice system’
Terrorists and paedophiles can select from 51 different gender identities in a Home Office database of Britain’s most dangerous criminals.
Police chiefs have admitted that ‘no formal risk assessment’ was carried out before recording extremists and rapists as ‘androgyne’ and ‘pangender’.
The list of obscure gender identities has been labelled ‘madness’ and the Home Secretary has been warned that failure to properly record criminals’ sex poses a risk to the public.
It comes after a landmark Supreme Court ruling this week that ‘woman’ and ‘man’ refer to biological sex and that ‘the concept of sex is binary’, with any other interpretation ‘incoherent and impracticable’.
Police forces will be expected to record criminals’ sex rather than their preferred gender following the ruling, meaning that rapists will no longer be able to identify as women.
Last night Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick said it showed police chiefs are ‘more interested in woke nonsense than arresting criminals’.
He told the Mail: ‘Gender identity is irrelevant to a system that’s sole focus should be on protecting the public and tracking dangerous people. This is a recipe for operational failure.’
The Home Office has admitted that the database – which was updated in 2022 to add the ‘gender identity’ category – is ‘outdated’ and said a new system for tracking offenders is being developed.