but why is it a problem that they add to the female crime statistics?
Because there are biological sex based differences that need to be recorded . You shouldn’t be able to just put on a costume to commit a crime under a different ‘gender’ and have it recorded as such. What if Bunce committed a crime on the womanly days?
Also, it then starts to normalize crimes perpetrated by people with penises as female crimes. This whole women rape too line of tact will start having more power. I am not denying women commit sexual assault and I never would deny that it happens. But I will not believe it is prevalent enough to be used as an excuse to remove single sex safe spaces. And if there was an upswing in crimes such as this, it is then hidden behind the ‘those who identified as women’ statistics.
What about knife crime? If it is poorly recorded how can targeted programmers be put in place to prevent it via education etc.
It also then makes a mockery if scientists are researching the effect of testosterone on types of crime and the recording of gender rather than sex obfuscates the facts. Let’s not forget that you don’t have to have testosterone reduced to self ID.
I am all for having a separate data point that collects for gender, if people can then include that they don’t have one, but is it there for people who do. But a separate data point in addition to biological sex. But when will this insidious creep of denying science stop?
We already have climate change deniers in government positions, evolution deniers (who forbid anything but creationism is taught in science), anti-vaxxers, flat earthers.