https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/21...-feelings/
INTRO: Moral superiority is a dangerous thing, especially when it slips into self-righteousness. It ends up replacing both common sense and empathy. At least, this is one explanation for what has happened in Scotland, where state institutions have been so thoroughly captured by the moral certainty of gender ideology that even male rape suspects are able to self-identify as female. That’s right: women at their most vulnerable and traumatised, as crime victims, are expected to appease their alleged attacker.
A freedom of information request by the think-tank MurrayBlackburnMackenzie has exposed Police Scotland’s policy for dealing with rape suspects. If a rape or attempted rape has been perpetrated by a ‘male who self-identifies as a woman… the male who self-identifies as a woman would be expected to be recorded as a female on relevant police systems’.
Even if we accept the bizarre logic of transgender activists, this statement makes little sense. Sex – whether you are male or female – has been confused with gender, whether you are a man or a woman. We can argue about whether or not a man should be able to self-identify as a woman (I think not), but even very few trans advocates insist that males magically become female just with the tick of a box. Except, it seems, Police Scotland.
Allowing male rape suspects to declare that they are women makes clear the disastrous consequences of self-identification. It allows men to rewrite history in the most egregious way imaginable. Describing a suspected male rapist as female fundamentally alters the nature of the crime. It trivialises and invalidates the experiences of the victim. A woman may have been violently penetrated by a penis, but if her rapist identifies as female then she must accept that she was attacked by a woman. Today we are repeatedly told to believe the victim – just not if she says her attacker was male... (MORE)
INTRO: Moral superiority is a dangerous thing, especially when it slips into self-righteousness. It ends up replacing both common sense and empathy. At least, this is one explanation for what has happened in Scotland, where state institutions have been so thoroughly captured by the moral certainty of gender ideology that even male rape suspects are able to self-identify as female. That’s right: women at their most vulnerable and traumatised, as crime victims, are expected to appease their alleged attacker.
A freedom of information request by the think-tank MurrayBlackburnMackenzie has exposed Police Scotland’s policy for dealing with rape suspects. If a rape or attempted rape has been perpetrated by a ‘male who self-identifies as a woman… the male who self-identifies as a woman would be expected to be recorded as a female on relevant police systems’.
Even if we accept the bizarre logic of transgender activists, this statement makes little sense. Sex – whether you are male or female – has been confused with gender, whether you are a man or a woman. We can argue about whether or not a man should be able to self-identify as a woman (I think not), but even very few trans advocates insist that males magically become female just with the tick of a box. Except, it seems, Police Scotland.
Allowing male rape suspects to declare that they are women makes clear the disastrous consequences of self-identification. It allows men to rewrite history in the most egregious way imaginable. Describing a suspected male rapist as female fundamentally alters the nature of the crime. It trivialises and invalidates the experiences of the victim. A woman may have been violently penetrated by a penis, but if her rapist identifies as female then she must accept that she was attacked by a woman. Today we are repeatedly told to believe the victim – just not if she says her attacker was male... (MORE)