“These are not our crimes”. Male violence being recorded as female.

[Destinysdaughter]

This is from New Zealand but the same thing is starting to happen in the UK. We all know that males commit a much higher proportion of violent crimes than women do yet it’s now being both recorded and reported as female crimes. This bullshit has to stop!

speakupforwomen.nz/these-are-not-our-crimes/

👆WTAF

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3532109-Joan-McAlpine-MSP-now-asks-about-how-Police-record-transgender-criminals

www.scotsman.com/news/crime/police-scotland-criticised-over-allowing-suspects-to-self-identify-gender-1-4939550

McAlpine for First Minister!

I'm really supportive of crimes and statistical reporting using the legal status of sex. We cannot have the statistics skewed in any way, it serves noone. It acts as an excuse for men to whine that women do it as well just like they do on virtually every post Women's Aid post.

Not our crimes.

That is very powerful.

Agree entirely with the ‘not our crimes’ point-extremely powerful, simple and truthful. The erosion of data accuracy to support individual validation affects absolutely everyone negatively- the individual and everyone else who those stats would be relevant to.

This is the same point as with health records data or government or educational data or any data really where it is mid recorded on the basis of gender (instead of biological sex). The only exception to this would be where the relevant data point actually is how someone self-identifies., in which case, fine.

It’s not hard to imagine though that recording by gender not sex could create (eg in health records) medical confusion which could seriously threaten individual patient safety. Same as with crime statistics, such misrecording will endanger all patients long term by skewing the research results coming from anonymised population level health records research.

‘Misrecorded’ that should have read, not mid recorded.

I was just thinking this with regard to Julie Bindel being attacked this evening by that trans activist. What should be reported as male violence upon a female but what is being reported in such incidences is female on female violence which is not looked upon as being so serious. It's not right and it needs remedying.

Jackie - I think the 'our' is more powerful than explicitly mentioning 'women' (particularly now its an 'opt in' category)

I agree. And by avoiding the word ‘woman’ in this instance means you don’t end up arguing with someone over the definition of woman.

You can’t self-identify into the category of ‘our’ and even Twitter is going to have trouble classifying ‘your’ as hate speech.