The Telegraph - self-ID and distorted crime stats.

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"Police and courts allowing criminals to choose their gender.
Fears that allowing criminals to self-identify without legally changing sex is skewing crime statistics."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/19/criminals-allowed-to-self-identify-gender/

Archive - https://archive.ph/JNEM3

Quote from the article - "Police forces and the courts are allowing criminals to self-identify their gender if they have not legally changed sex.
Criminals who believe they are a different gender are routinely referred to by their preferred identity by police and in court.
It had previously been revealed that some forces record transgender rapists as female but guidance issued by forces and the courts indicates that criminals of all kinds can self-identify.
It is feared that the self-ID policy – which remains widely in force despite a series of high-profile trans cases – skews crime statistics."

Thanks for this link, it's a good companion piece to this:
Biological sex erased from official data on health, crime and education | Mumsnet

Thanks for the link to the other thread Marie.

The way this has happened has caused a mess.

I remember tracking the female aex crime stats, I will go and check again as it has been a couple of year since I checked. And there already was a disturbing increase. And either female sex offending was on the up, female sex offenders were being prosecuted more successfully than male sex offenders and it was assymetrical OR male people were already causing discrepancies in the stats.

I know which I suspect is true.

There was that time it was reported that female child abusers had increased by 87%. I think Fair Play for Women did an analysis showing the increase could feasibly be made up entirely of males.

This seems timely too.

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/chleo-sunter-thornaby-middlesbrough-court-31234832

Not a woman’s crime.

All the flaming she's throughout that article!

I know they pull the 'previously known as' trick and have the photos, but it still grates.