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Scottish police confirm male-born rape suspects are recorded as female, where requested, regardless of legal status

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[–]NutterButterFlutterStill waving into the void[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Removing for rule 2.

This would be better suited for s/GenderCritical, s/GenderCriticalGuys, or s/ThereAreTwoGenders

[–]Elvira95Viva la figa 19 insightful - 4 fun19 insightful - 3 fun20 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

This shit totally goes against the whole purpose of sex crime reports, which is about giving objective data to help police during investigation. It done anything rather than creating false stats, where women are blamed for men behaviour.

[–]reluctant_commenter 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And to be ultra clear, it is blatantly pseudoscientific regardless of whether the man changed his reported sex on legal documents. It's impossible for humans to changes sexes.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Can we end this whole "Rape is when a penis is put into some else's orifice without consent" bs while we're at it? Rape is nonconsentual sex between two people, fullstop. By this definition, a man cannot be raped by a woman and two women would be entirely incapable of rape happening between them unless a man got involved. This is why male victims of abuse/assault aren't taken seriously, even the law will refuse to acknowledge them in some places.

I just hope TRAs don't try to get rape redefined as "A self identified male forcibly inserting his natal penis into someone's orifice without consent" just to define themselves out of the possibility since no trans person both has a penis and identifies as male.

[–]Elvira95Viva la figa 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Rape is about penetration (not just by penis), but sexual assault include forced non penetrative sex act too

[–]GConly 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

UK law requires a penis to be inserted, it it's categorised as "other sexual assault".

Having said that, the severity of sentencing for "other sexual assault" can be just as harsh, so it's a terminology difference.

[–]Tarlatan 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because the Scottish police deeply believe that half the population they serve deserve to live in fear of what predators will be given governmental permission to do to them, yes.

[–]BEB 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For what other crimes can the perps determine their own identities?

For instance, given that in some places teens around the same age can have legal under-age sex, will people who want to have sex with a minor be able to identify as a minor themselves?

Where is the line drawn with self-ID? Or is it only transgenders who get to tell the police what they are?

[–]grixit 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

sad that we have to rely on a russian org for this.

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Seriously (and oddly enough) RT often has much more interesting, pertinent, and often more accurate, news on what's going on in the US than the US media.

This same RT article has a link to an article on California's new law allowing men to self-identify into women's prisons. You can't find that kind of honesty about this atrocity in US media, except perhaps in conservative media.

[–]lavender_menace 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same thing happens when using search engines. Yandex has more results including controversial than google (seems they are deciding beforehand what is safe and useful for me to see).