Hi,
Please correct me if I am being inappropriate as it is hard to know what is viewed as transphobic to ask vs what is just acceptable to ask.
But my understanding is that crimes committed by transwomen are recorded for crime stats as committed by natal women. Is that correct?
I dont know why it bothers me so much. But it makes me feel like it is deeply unfair that a natal male uses male violence and rapes a women, but then as they identify as transwomen, this rape is recorded as by a woman. There isnt even like an asterix or something to indicate for future records that this was a transwomen - not natal. If I'm wrong on this, please let me know! But if I'm right - this means for for now and for the future looking back on women crime rates - rapes committed by women are being recorded as higher than they should be.
Like I said, I'm unsure why this bothers me. It just feels like a false home goal in a sense. Done by the opposite team but treated as a home goal all the same.
Is there a way we can request government keep accurate records? Like I recognise transwomen with a GRC are allowed to be recorded as women - but just like they cannot legally access some spaces - could an asterix not be added in the event they commit a crime? Especially when it is violent/ sexual and against women/children?
And does anybody know what the crime records impact upon? Like beyond just record keeping, is it also used for other things like tailoring inmate support based on the crimes committed or for shaping societal interventions to reduce crimes of a particular nature? Because if so - then doesnt the counting of natal men as women then skew all of this?
I dont know. Hopefully someone more intelligent than me can help me figure it out. But all I know is that it feels deeply unfair. And that's without even considering when rape victims are then forced to refer to their rapists as "she" in court cases. That should also be stopped if a transwoman has used her male anatomy to commit crime. Victims come first.