Police Scotland records the “self-reported” gender of people accused of rape, even though by law only men can be prosecuted for rape – a policy that women's activists have called “morally indefensible”.
Murray Blackburn Mackenzie (MBM), an all-female policy analysis group, submitted the petition to the Scottish Parliament's Civic Engagement and Public Petitions Committee in 2021. According to the Herald:
Analysts are concerned that perpetrators who identify as women are recorded as women in crime statistics, even though the legal definition of rape includes penetration by the male organ.
The petition called on Parliament to “urge the Scottish Government to require Police Scotland, the Crown Office and the Scottish Courts Service to accurately record the sex of people charged with or convicted of rape or attempted rape”, describing this as a “moral imperative” necessary for “confidence in official statistics”.
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Since the petition was submitted, the committee has been trying to gather evidence from the public bodies named, but Police Scotland has delayed responding to the committee's requests – MBM says the committee had to submit four requests before the police responded.
The final request, made in January, was a less stringent one, asking for “a clear explanation of how (Police Scotland's) policy of recording the gender of offenders is consistent with the organisation's values”.
Two months later, Police Scotland finally responded.
“The gender of an individual who comes into contact with police is determined based on how that person behaves or self-reports,” police wrote.
In response to X, MBM's Kath Murray called the policy “statistically inconsistent.”
In its letter, Police Scotland cited “legal compliance, operational necessity and promoting the values ​​of respect, integrity, fairness and human rights whilst promoting a strong sense of belonging” as reasons for allowing suspects to choose their gender.
He added:
Police Scotland will not require evidence or certification as proof of a person's biological sex or gender identity other than their self-declared identity, except where it is relevant to an investigation in which they are concerned as a victim, witness or accused and where it is legally significant for evidence to require this evidence, or there are reasons to investigate further based on risk.
One might consider a suspect's gender to be “material” and “evidently significant” in a rape investigation, but only if one is not enslaved by the transgender cult that claims that gender is “fluid” and determined strictly by an individual's subjective feelings at the time, rather than objective evidence such as genitalia or chromosomes.
Offensive Line
Unsurprisingly, MBM is extremely unhappy with Police Scotland's response, calling the policy “totally unjust and deeply offensive”.
“Police Scotland has no 'legal' requirement to allow men suspected or accused of rape to be recorded as women, nor are we aware of any 'operational need',” the women said in a statement. “We believe this policy is morally indefensible and demonstrates an organisation that does not take women's interests seriously.”
Feminist activist group For Women Scotland told the Herald in a statement:
We have been extremely shocked and dismayed by the way victims have been treated by the Scottish justice system.
We never expected Police Scotland to place a rapist's “strong sense of belonging” above the law, or the impact of such a grotesque lie on women who have already suffered so much at the hands of their abusers.
This is a terrible insult to all women who are being told without any irony that some of the most violent men in society want to “belong” to the gender they target, and that we must go along with them and affirm their delusions.
The Scottish justice system, as For Women Scotland pointed out, is totally complicit in this nonsense. Last year a man called Adam Graham was convicted of raping two women. However, between committing the crimes and being convicted, Graham “transitioned” to a false woman called Isla Bryson, and was listed as such in court documents. As a result, he was initially sent to a women's prison, and only transferred to a men's prison after an outcry from public opinion.
Support your transgender self
But when it comes to protecting transgender rights, Police Scotland may be in a league of its own. According to the Daily Mail, government-funded “charity” LGBT Youth Scotland (LGBTYS) “is at the centre of controversy over a 'coming out' guide for pupils co-authored by a convicted paedophile, while its former boss has been exposed as a paedophile who sexually assaulted boys.” As a result, the BBC charity Children in Need has stopped funding LGBTYS. Meanwhile, Police Scotland told the paper it “will continue to work with” LGBTYS, which runs a training programme for police call-handling staff.
Meanwhile, a parliamentary committee said it would “reconsider (MBM's) petition” and decide “what next steps to take”.
As for the kilt-wearing officers, Jonathon Van Maren of LifeSiteNews had this to say:
In the longer term, Police Scotland will likely be forced to back down from this position due to public and political pressure, and the collapsing trans narrative, but in the meantime, the systematic domination of Police Scotland by trans activists will ensure that law enforcement's badly needed credibility is severely damaged, as Police Scotland will continue to defend assumptions that many in the public consider not only wrong but abhorrent.
