Men counted as women

I posted a couple of weeks back on the BBC report about the astonishing rise in female-perpetrated child sexual abuse recently - an increase of 84% from 2015 to 2019 - and noted that much of this was very possibly due to the fact that the statistics now tend to be collected according to the "gender identity" of the perpetrator. Trans women, therefore - men claiming to be women - are counted as female. 

Fair Play for Women looked into this, and revealed that police forces in the UK do indeed now generally record self-declared gender identity instead of sex, even when the crime is rape.

And the same goes for press reporting of sex crimes. Thus, for example:

“Sheffield woman found with over 1,000 indecent images of children hauled before the court”, published by thestar.co.uk on 19 July 2019

“Woman who ‘bragged about being a paedophile’ approached boys at Remembrance event”, published by Wales Online on 15th May 2020

“Blackpool woman accessed ‘sick’ child abuse images from hospital bed, published by Lancs Online on 14th July 2020

“Dundee teen had explicit video of toddler and notes about ‘baby torture’ and ‘toddler murder’ on her phone” published by Evening Telegraph on 20th January 2021.

All trans women. So the figures are meaningless, and the supposed increase very likely hasn't happened.

It's not just the UK. From Women are Human:

In 2016, Norway introduced self-declaration of sex, meaning that males can register themselves as female. The Norwegian policy academy’s annual report, Rape in Norway, indicates that, in the year following this change, the number of reported cases of women committing rape more than tripled from a steady 12 per year, up to 41. Some of the increase is due to a change in the definition of rape (15 cases), but this does not account for the remaining 14.

A woman emailed the policy academy asking whether anyone had changed their registered sex, and whether the increase in female rapists had any correlation with an increase in males identifying as women. Not only had this not occurred to the researchers, but they were also unaware that self-ID even existed – meaning the effects of this policy change are not being evaluated.

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Following the addition of gender identity to the Canadian Human Rights Act in 2017, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) implemented an interim policy, whereby prisoners are placed according to their gender identity “unless there are overriding health or safety concerns which cannot be resolved”. Definitive data on male prisoners housed in women’s estates is difficult to obtain; however, estimates are that 50% of all requests for transfers from men’s to women’s prisons are from sex offenders.

Heather Mason, former Canadian federal prisoner and advocate for women in prison, is slowly compiling data on the number of male prisoners in women’s prisons, and the crimes they have committed. Ms Mason is currently aware of 16 transgender prisoners convicted of sex offences. If these cases are added to the estimated 21 women in prison for sexual assaults, the proportion of convicted sex offenders almost doubles.

In other words, it's all a great big mess.