Scottish Parliament Committee discussing recording of rape on Wednesday

[MurrayBlackburnMackenzie]

The Scottish Parliament Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee is discussing the petition we lodged with them in June this year about recording the sex (not the gender identity) of rapists and alleged rapists.

The meeting (starts 11.15am) on Wednesday 6th will be livestreamed on Scottish Parliament TV.

Full details in this thread:

twitter.com/mbmpolicy/status/1444979215875678210

Thank you to everyone who signed the petition.

Kath, Lucy and Lisa

Thanks kath Lisa and Lucy for all the work you do on this for us women and girls in Scotland

Will try and watch

Thank you for all your work

That's a cracking thread although I am sadly less "surprised" by ScotGov's behaviour!

Well done on the petition, hope they start to see sense.

Thank you.

Thanks for the heads-up, and for all that you have done for women and girls.

The publicity will hopefully be brilliant

Anything the rest of us can do?

Just wanted to give this a bump.

All of the submissions to the committee can be seen here: www.parliament.scot/get-involved/petitions/view-petitions/pe1876-accurately-record-the-sex-of-people-charged-or-convicted-of-rape-or-attempted-rape

Given these submissions I can't see how the committee could justify refusing the petition, but I suspect they will. If they admit that sex matters more than gender in one thing, then that refutes the idea that gender is the important thing.

Thank you for your work. It's such a reasonable ask, how have we come to this? I remain baffled

Thank you for all your efforts!!!

Thank you - will try and listen to this.

Thank you, I really hope that common sense prevails.

Just bumping this for anyone who can listen later this morning.

Link to live feed

www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/citizen-participation-and-public-petitions-committee-october-6-2021

So the Committee is going to take this further and seek submissions from relevant parties, eg police and courts. When they have those submissions they will look at it again.

Petition to be left open

Another manel!

How annoying.

Is there (or will there be) a written transcript of this somewhere?

Submissions? Police? Stonewall? Edinburgh Rape Crisis? Engender?

The only conclusion I can see front that is those horrible rape victims need to be prosecuted for hate crime for their bigotry towards their poor rapists.

There's usually a recording, Tea, not sure about transcript. Thanks for the link, Moonlight.

FFS, seven men in suits discuss this.

'stakeholders' - do they mean rape victims?

@ArabellaScott

'stakeholders' - do they mean rape victims?

Of course not. They are irrelevant.

Thank you for your work