A trial case soon to go to court is whether transwomen (male to females) should have the right to have crimes that can only be commited be a male forgotten so that it doesn't out them as trans. There are a few historical crimes but the only one now is rape (in the UK a penis must be involved -otherwise it is sexual assult).
So if this case is successful it would provide precedence that would enable rapists to claim to be trans, have their rape removed as outing then when they have a criminal record check it would come back as clean!
A transgender offender is seeking to delete from her record two crimes that could only have been committed by a man.
“I do not wish my gender history to be more widely known and do not wish to disclose my trans status to employers,” the woman, who asked to be identified only as Helen, said. She is to launch a judicial review to remove two convictions for “importuning as a man” when she worked at a Soho “clip joint” in the 1970s and 1980s.
A right to removal, if established, could cover rape, another crime that can legally be committed only by a person with a penis.
AIBU to think this is a terrible idea and that it is even being considered a sign that some malignant indivduals are taking advantage of Trans people with body disphoria for their own agenda?