How should police record a rape where the culprit has male genitalia? The answer might appear to be straightforward: a man is responsible. Yet in Scotland, where the SNP’s obsession with avoiding offence appears to trump reality, things could soon be more complicated.
Police Scotland have said that they may log rapes as being carried out by a woman if the alleged culprit identifies as such. This absurd situation was revealed by Gary Ritchie, assistant chief constable, who set out scenarios where this might happen. It includes ‘where a person born male obtains a full gender recognition certificate (GRC) and then commits rape’ and ‘where a person born male but who identifies as a female and does not have a full GRC…commits rape’.
Kenny MacAskill MP, the former Scottish justice secretary who recently defected from the SNP, at least sees through this nonsense. ‘It’s physically impossible and is about dogma overriding common sense,’ he said. ‘Women
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