Scottish Parliament petition on accurately recording the sex of people charged or convicted of rape or attempted rape

[MurrayBlackburnMackenzie]

We thought this might be of interest to women on this board, based on the response to a recent news article on this issue which sparked this thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4221733-Rape-suspects-can-choose-to-self-identify-as-female-Times-Scotland

We have lodged a petition in the Scottish Parliament, which was published today, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to require Police Scotland, the Crown Office and the Scottish Court Service to accurately record the sex of people charged or convicted of rape or attempted rape.

We are now collecting signatures for our petition. If you would like to sign, the link is below. Signatures will be collected for four weeks, until 5 July.

petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE1876

This blog sets out the background to the petition and our reasons for using a public petition to secure clarity about the issue of recording sex accurately in these cases specifically:

murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/scottish-parliament-public-petition-on-recording-sex-accurately-in-cases-of-rape-or-attempted-rape/

Thank you.

Lisa, Lucy and Kath

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Signed. Not in Scotland but there is a drop down menu to select location.

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Not in Scotland but have signed. Bump!

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Signed - I am in Scotland.

Signed. Thank you for this.

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Husband and I couldn't sign fast enough! Happy to help.

Signed - thank you for doing this.

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Signed. Thank you.

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So bloody obvious this shouldn't be be necessary.

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