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Oh gee, what a good idea.
Police force lets suspects choose their gender
So rape suspects get to choose to “be” women? Men who assault women get to choose the women label? Domestic violence perps get to say they are women? All men who commit crimes against women are allowed to tell the police they are women?
Why would the police do that?
Norfolk Constabulary confirmed that “in most cases” the force recorded the self-identified gender of suspects. The policy has been criticised by women’s rights groups, who fear that it skews crime statistics and obscures focus on the safety of women and girls.
They don’t just fear that it does, they know it does. How could it not? If you let men lie about their sex then of course you’re skewing the statistics.
When even the police can’t see it…
“Officer, I identity as a NotGuiltySexual!”
Do they also note their astrological sign and favourite flavour of ice cream? They’re just as useful and relevent as “gender identity.” If that’s far as it went, there’d be little problem, but what the police are doing is letting these suspects lie about their sex.. Once they’re in the system, this putative “gender” is used in place of sex because the system is built around seeing a suspect or prisoner’s sex. “Gender identity” wasn’t a thing when women’s prisons (or women’s anything for that matter) were established. They were intended to account for the physiological differences between men and women. To put it blunly, women need protection from men. Female vulnerability to rape and pregnancy require protection from men’s greater physical strength. Letting men circumvent this basic, humane, sensible safety requirement by means of some conveniently self-proclaimed, imagined, invisible, untestable, unquestioned, “identity” is brutally sadistic. The police and courts cannot not know this. Do they place a suspect in the police stables if he dresses as a pantomime horse? Do they set him free if he “identifies” as innocent? “Identifying as a woman” does not change the material body of the males being arrested and imprisoned. It does not change their guilt or innocence. His “identity” does not make him a victim, and treating him as the male he is and always will be is not in any way victimization. It should not let them be imprisoned with unwilling female inmates who are forced to accept his presence. Even if they’re receiving “gender affirming treatment”, they remain male. And even psychologically, such identification will not change male-pattern offending.
This dishonest bait and switch is exactly what genderists chide critics for, but precisely what these opportunistic, predatory men are counting on to escape the male estate and gain access to a target-rich environment.