Scottish Police say that they will record rapists as male

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https://x.com/HolyroodDaily/status/1988558674919366698

'Police Scotland Chief Constable Jo Farrell: "A man who rapes or attempts to rape a woman, girl or other victim is, should be, and will be recorded by Police Scotland as a male." "Let me be clear - my priority is to protect victims."'

Well, it’s not that important, is it? ‘A dangerous 6ft 3 woman is on the loose. Police say she is very violent and not to be approached’. What can go wrong with that? At least now if ‘she’ is a convicted rapist, we will get told – surprise! – it’s a man. But just a mass murderer? Nothing to see here.

Sorry – and amazing work MBM. So pleased you are finally being listened to.

Yes.
If, as some claim, ‘transwomen are women’, and no more likely to commit violent or any other crime than a natal female, the trans community would surely welcome robust data to prove this?

This was my first thought too.

Interestingly, if one finds the absurd interesting, the CC's statement could include women who call themselves transmen.

'In this Act—

“penis” includes a surgically constructed penis if it forms part of A, having been created in the course of surgical treatment, and

“vagina” includes— 

(a)the vulva, and

(b)a surgically constructed vagina (together with any surgically constructed vulva), if it forms part of B, having been created in the course of such treatment.'

Scottish law is written to show rape as a gender neutral offence.

www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/9/section/1#section-1-2

And that is the 2009 Act's original wording. They've been trans inclusive for a very long time.

Hallefeckinglujah!!

Good news. Now do shoplifters and jaywalkers.

Esp as UK law specifies that only men can commit rape!

Yeah but like all words that gets perverted.
Xxx is a "woman" not a man therefore xxx cannot have commited rape ( despite having a penis ).

This summed up my immediate feeling too!

What an absolutely fucking insane world we are living in!

English/Welsh law is different from Scots law. Don't know about NI.