The Times on Naughty Rowling:

JK Rowling has reopened the row on gender after characterising as “Orwellian” a police policy in which a rape can be recorded as being committed by a woman if the attacker “identifies as a female”.

She hasn’t “reopened” anything because that row was never closed. It’s been raging along quite loudly for years now. What she has done is added her massive fame on the right side of the row again.

Her intervention came as Police Scotland confirmed they would log rapes by offenders with male genitalia as being carried out by a woman if the accused identified as female, regardless of whether they had legally changed gender.

I really couldn’t care less whether they have “legally changed gender” or not, if they have raped women. Legally changing gender shouldn’t be the issue here, because it’s with their sex that men rape women, and you can’t change that, legally or otherwise.

The controversial policy has again come under the spotlight after Kenny MacAskill, the former SNP justice secretary, asked how the force would deal with rapes under new laws to make it easier for people to self-identify as a different gender.

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MacAskill, who defected to Alex Salmond’s Alba party in March, described Police Scotland’s stance as “dangerous”.

The MP for East Lothian said: “As a lawyer for 20 years and justice secretary for almost eight, I’ve seen some legal absurdities. But this tops it all and is dangerous. It’s physically impossible and is about dogma overriding common sense. Women prisoners are being harmed by this and vital crime statistics rendered useless.”

And on top of all that it’s just idiotic and childish.