Male sex offenders can skew crime statistics and put women at risk by claiming to be female when arrested, it has emerged.
Ya think?
It hasn’t “emerged”; feminists have been pointing this out for years. Remember the murder of a lesbian couple and their son in Oakland a few years ago? The suspect was reported as a woman but was in fact a trans woman. That’s just one example.
Humza Yousaf, the justice secretary, confirmed in parliament yesterday that criminal incidents are tracked according the self-identified gender of victims, witnesses and suspects. It prompted concerns that Scotland is introducing “self-identification through the back door” by allowing police and courts to record crimes according to the gender suspects feel they are.
Politicians, experts and women’s groups have warned that this could distort crime statistics and result in offenders who are male-bodied being placed in female-only refuges, exposing other inmates to danger and upset.
Not “could” but would, and in fact already is. And the male-bodied offenders are also people who grew up with male privilege and entitlement, however much they also felt not at home in those bodies.
Joan McAlpine, a fellow SNP MSP, had raised concerns that sexual offences are disproportionately perpetrated by biological men and asked whether self-identification would therefore lead to a “misleading” rise in the number of women recorded as sex-offenders. Official statistics show that 1,007 men were convicted for sexual crimes from 2017 to 2018, compared with 46 women.
Ms McAlpine, 57, said: “Aside from the statistical corruption, I cannot be the only woman who finds it deeply offensive that male sexual violence can ever be badged as a female crime.
Indeed she cannot, and she is not. Lots of us find it infuriating.
She highlighted the case of Katie Dolatowski, 18, a transgender sex offender who preyed on girls in public toilets in Fife and was housed in women-only accommodation after being convicted. Ms McAlpine said the policy meant Dolatowski was “recorded as a woman, when this person doesn’t even have a gender recognition certificate and is therefore legally male”.
And is housed in women-only accommodation despite the conviction for preying on girls in female-only toilets. It’s grotesque.
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One of the purposes of collecting statistics such as these is to help us calculate risk and our exposure to it. Humans are already terrible at calculating risk, we shoudln’t be making it more difficult.
I would think that collecting data on perpetrators’ sex and on their, um… gender stuff (you know what I mean) would be best. Collect as much data as is feasible. Then you can draw reasonable conclusions and detect significant patterns. What can we say about the crimes that are committed by women? What can we say about trends in crimes committed by men “living as” women? How does the crime rate of men compare with the crime rate of men living as women? Etc. Seems to me that more information is better.
Regardless, classifying the crimes of men who are living as women (or who claim to be living as women) as crimes committed by women is totally wrongheaded.
But, but, but… This never happens.
Apparently…
Wait. Haven’t we been told by reliable sources that This Will (sic) Never Happen? That this is A Red Herring? That this a Paranoid, Delusional Fantasy? Or was the person in this case somehow not Veritably Scottish?
Next you’ll be telling me that this is a Thing, and has happened more than once.
No, on second thought, don’t tell me. I think I can guess the rest.
If it happens ONCE that’s a lot more than “never,” and one time too many.
Could you please direct me to a video where these reliable sources can be seen eating their words?
When the Devil stages the snowball fight in Hell, that video will become readily available. Until then, it is not viewable by the likes of us.
This calls to mind the man who had threatened to sue women who refused to wax his crotch, and went on to ask (and get!) advice from the trans ‘community’ on how to approach the pre- early-teenaged schoolgirls he sees regularly on the ferry, particularly in order to assist them with inserting their first tampons. Just a man pretending to be a woman for easier access to vulnerable young women and girls.
As for housing male-bodied prisoners with women, particularly, though by no means exclusively those transwomen with convictions for sexual or violent crimes against women, surely it’s a no-brainer? I say that despite the opinion of one Gilliel, the wokest-of-woke among the all-woke Horde, stating recently (possibly on PZ’s ‘Disappointed in Ophelia’ post) that to put transwomen in male prisons would be a crime because ‘do you know what they do to transwomen in those places?’. In other words, Gilliel (a woman ((or ciswoman, as she prefers))) would rather throw a prison-full of women to the wolves than see a male convicted of rape go to a males’ prison. Solidarity, Sister G., Solidarity!
I have vowed not to read PZ’s blog again of my own volition, though hearing that he had a ‘recent’ post titled ‘Disappointed in Ophelia’, I admit that I was momentarily *very* tempted.
Get thee behind me, Sagan.
Didn’t he go out of his way not to name me? I think that’s what I remember – unless there’s another on the same subject, which seems most unlikely.
I was merely summarizing that shitshow of a post, I think the actual title was Deep Disappointment, from early January.
Perhaps the most annoying part of this is when the trans activist pipes up with something like ‘trans women never do this, so obviously this means this trans person was not genuinely trans.’
#8 OB
Yes, he was highly evasive, saying ‘a former friend’ and similar throughout.
All those awful ‘bathroom bills’ pushed by the Xtian right in the U.S?
Someone pointed out that more Republican legislators than trans-women have been arrested for sexual offenses in public bathrooms. But, by now, it seems that ‘paranoid’ notion has been justified.