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.
In the report, Ms Alsalem warned that feminist campaigners had been “ostracised, attacked and punished” by British political parties, universities and the media for criticising gender ideology.
She said the UK risked “undoing decades of progress made on combating homophobia” by failing to stand up for lesbians who had been “vilified” for demanding the right to same-sex spaces such as bars and dating apps.
And she demanded that Labour ensured its conversion therapy ban did not criminalise doctors and parents who question whether a child needs to change gender.
Ms Alsalem’s comments, in a report on how the UK fares on the issue of violence against women and girls, come a month after the Supreme Court ruled that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex and not self-declared gender.
In March, a review led by Prof Alice Sullivan, of University College, London, urged Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, to issue a mandatory order to all 43 English and Welsh police forces, and the British Transport Police, to collect data by sex, but she has not yet done so.
In her interim report, published on Friday, Ms Alsalem backed that call for action, writing: “The lack of legislative clarity on ‘sex’ hampers data collection on violence against women and girls.
“Police data, while disaggregated by crime and location, often conflates the sex with the gender, for data on victims and perpetrators. The special rapporteur identifies this gap as the biggest barrier to ending VAWG, obscuring trends and intersectional vulnerabilities.”
Ms Alsalem said prioritising self-identified gender erased biological sex records, “distorting the male-driven nature of violence against women and girls” and hindering analysis. …
“At least 16 of 46 police forces follow guidance favouring self-identified gender, skewing the very low rate of sexual and gender-based violence crimes committed by females,” she said.
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