@NecessaryScene1
So "confusion with their gender identity" prompts males to commit offences?
If any courts were foolish enough to actually permit that as a defence or mitigating factor, then that's a very clear legal precedent to refer to as to why such males should not be permitted in women's spaces - sexual urges so out of control that they can't be held responsible for their actions. Thus evidently more of a risk than other males, who are held responsible.
And a male wanting to be in a women's space is clear evidence of "confusion of gender identity". They basically make our case for us - any male wanting in is exactly the sort of male that has to be kept out.
Good point. This defence is presented with sickening regularity and is sometimes accepted.
Since “confusion about gender identity” can be caused by psychosis it would surely be appropriate for such a defence to prompt referral for psychological reports prior to sentencing?
The Government cannot claim it was never warned:
Written evidence submitted by British Psychological Society to the Transgender Equality Inquiry
20 August 2015
Extract
Conversely, psychologists working with forensic patients are aware of a number of cases where men convicted of sex crimes have falsely claimed to be transgender females for a number of reasons:
• As a means of demonstrating reduced risk and so gaining parole;
• As a means of explaining their sex offending aside from sexual gratification (e.g. wanting to ‘examine’ young females);
• Or as a means of separating their sex offending self (male) from their future self (female).
• In rare cases it has been thought that the person is seeking better access to females and young children through presenting in an apparently female way.
Such strategies in no way affect risk an indeed may increase it. Some people falsely believe that taking oestrogen and blocking androgen in males will reduce risk of offending, however this is not necessarily the case.
Consequently the Society recommends that the Government give appropriate assistance to transgender people within the criminal justice system; while being extremely cautious of setting law and policy such that some of the most dangerous people in society have greater latitude to offend.
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Written evidence submitted by British Association of Gender Identity Specialists to the Transgender Equality Inquiry
20 August 2015
Extracts
“We would not describe transphobia as very widespread; on the other hand, its very presence is saddening and regrettable. On the whole, in our experience, non-fiction broadcast radio and televisual representations have varied between moderately poor and moderately good whilst print journalism has been moderately poor at best. There appears to be a persisting inability to distinguish between homosexuality, people who cross dress for any one of a large number of reasons including fetishistic and people for whom gender is the core issue. This difficulty in distinguishing one thing from another seems most marked in print journalism and low-end television.”
“The criminal justice system merits quite a bit of thinking about. On the one hand, many of us can remember patients who were charged with crimes, convicted and who ended up on the sex offenders register when we thought that the same thing wouldn’t have happened if they weren’t a trans person. A good example would be the transwoman charged with sexual assault after some brief fellatio with two males who were two and three years younger than her own age at the time (she was eighteen). They were visitors to the area and boasted to their cousin of their recent sexual encounter. The cousin, enlightening them as to the nature of the person they had had a sexual encounter with, caused them to feel embarrassed. One thing led to another and the patient was charged with sexual assault. Given that she was in a kneeling position at the time and that it would have been perfectly possible for either one of the males concerned to run away this seemed a bit implausible. In the end, she was convicted of being reckless as regard to age. This does place her on the sex offenders register, though. One suspects that she would never have been charged at all if she had been a born female.
The converse is the ever-increasing tide of referrals of patients in prison serving long or indeterminate sentences for serious sexual offences. These vastly outnumber the number of prisoners incarcerated for more ordinary, non-sexual, offences. It has been rather naïvely suggested that nobody would seek topretend transsexual status in prison if this were not actually the case. There are, to those of us who actually interview the prisoners, in fact very many reasons why people might pretend this. These vary from the opportunity to have trips out of prison through to a desire for a transfer to the female estate (to the same prison as a co-defendant) through to the idea that a parole board will perceive somebody who is female as being less dangerous through to a [false] belief that hormone treatment will actually render one less dangerous through to wanting a special or protected status within the prison system and even (in one very well evidenced case that a highly concerned Prison Governor brought particularly to my attention) a plethora of prison intelligence information suggesting that the driving force was a desire to make subsequent sexual offending very much easier, females being generally perceived as low risk in this regard. I am sure that the Governor concerned would be happy to talk about this.”
data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/women-and-equalities-committee/transgender-equality/written/19532.html
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