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Rape is a male crime. Why are we still recording male suspects as female?

Rape is a male crime. Why are we still recording male suspects as female?

Police Scotland embraced self-ID without having proper regard to the current state of the law. It failed to grasp that recording even a handful of men as women risked skewing criminal justice statistics. It put ‘affirmation’ and ‘inclusion’ above basic accuracy and respect for female victims.

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