Another Gender Nail in the Coffin of Common Sense

The UK police allow male rapists to self-identify as women

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…