by Richard Eldred, The Daily Sceptic
The UN has slammed UK police forces for allowing 49 male-born rapists to be recorded as female offenders, warning that self-ID policies endanger women and undermine accurate crime data. The Telegraph has the story.
Police forces that allow criminals to pick their own gender are the “biggest barrier to ending violence against women and girls”, a United Nations report has found.
Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur for violence against women and girls, said at least a third of British forces were still collecting data on criminals and victims’ self-identified gender rather than their sex.
It has led to a situation in which 49 convictions for rape had been officially listed as female in the decade to 2023, despite the fact they were biological men and the legal definition of rape as only being able to be carried out by men.
She said such an approach “neglects women’s and girls’ specific needs” and increases risks to their safety.