Mick Hartley

The Stonewall effect. Yes. it still lingers. From the Telegraph:

A police force has been accused of prioritising “ideology over accuracy” by allowing detainees to choose their gender.

Norfolk Constabulary confirmed that “in most cases” the force recorded the self-identified gender of suspects.

The policy has been criticised by women’s rights groups, who fear that it skews crime statistics and obscures focus on the safety of women and girls.

Ermine Amies, of the Women’s Rights Network, said Norfolk police were potentially recording rapists and male sex offenders as female.

“This is scandalous,” she said. “Norfolk Constabulary are actively misleading the public they serve. They are valuing ideology over accuracy.

“How can their data possibly be used reliably to focus on crime prevention and the safety of women and girls? It cannot. Our constabulary must revert to recording sex to restore trust, accuracy and compliance with UK law, with self-ID and other data recorded separately as relevant.”

Also, it’s the law. Except the government is sitting on its hands on the Supreme Court ruling.

Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at the sex-based rights charity Sex Matters, said it was “outrageous” that Norfolk Constabulary was persisting with the policy.

She said: “The recording of trans-identifying male criminals as female is one of the most destructive consequences of gender ideology.

“Men commit far more crimes than women, especially violent and sexual crimes, meaning that even a small number of men recorded as female seriously skews crime statistics.

“Some particularly heinous crimes, such as sex crimes against children, are committed almost exclusively by men. The result of recording based on ‘gender identity’ is an entirely spurious crime wave of ‘female’ paedophiles and the like.

“It is outrageous that Norfolk Constabulary is continuing with this offensive and misleading practice several years after campaigners first raised the alarm on police recording men as women.”