An investigation by The Telegraph reveals that police in the United Kingdom continue to list hundreds of suspected male rapists as women. Why? The police allow accused rapists to self-declare their gender.
This farce was first uncovered in 2019 by Fair Play For Women, a volunteer group of female campaigners concerned that transgender rights were often coming at the expense of biological women. Fair Play For Women had submitted a series of Freedom of Information requests to discover how British police recorded the sex of criminal suspects. The group was motivated in part by a highly publicized trial the previous year in which a convicted pedophile, Stephen Wood, was accused of repeatedly raping a woman. At the time of that sexual assault, Wood identified as Karen White. Police and prosecutors referred to Stephen Wood always as a woman; prosecutors talked in court about “her penis.”
Fair Play For Women was startled by the response to its Freedom of Information request. It turned out that…
