Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Choose one.

Norfolk Constabulary confirmed that “in most cases” the force recorded the self-identified gender of suspects.

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 bluntly, women need protection from men. Female vulnerability to rape and pregnancy requires 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.