According to a research tank, the criminal justice system is failing women by favoring transgender rights.
Despite not complying with the legislation, important institutions have adopted self-declaration of gender identity, causing complications for both female suspects and victims, according to the Policy Exchange report.
According to the journal, Oxford University sociology professor Michael Biggs wrote: ‘If gender identity campaigners succeed in their goal, the number of guys in women’s jails will grow.’
Males would soon outnumber females, given the apparent motivation for heterosexual men to transfer. The repercussions for female detainees don’t need to be stated.’
The report, titled Transgenderism and Policy Capture in the Criminal Justice System, called for the elimination of de facto declarations of gender identity and for data to be recorded on the basis of sex.
Its author Maureen O’Hara, assistant professor at Coventry University, said: ‘Practices which treat biological males as women are causing harm to victims of crime, staff in the criminal justice institutions, female prisoners, and perhaps to trans-identifying offenders.’
SNP MP Joanna Cherry QC, who wrote the paper’s foreword, lamented the ‘toxic’ debate around trans issues.
She said: ‘When politicians from the left and right such as Annaliese Dodds, Nicola Sturgeon and Ruth Davidson refuse to define what a woman is for fear of being branded ‘transphobic’, it is depressingly difficult to have an informed debate on the implications of the wholesale and often unquestioning adoption of gender identity theory by our institutions, both public and private.
‘Many politicians describe the debate as toxic and use that as an excuse to avoid addressing issues of the sort set out in this article. It is a quite shocking abdication of their responsibility as law makers.’
She added: ‘Meanwhile across the public and private sectors, women and indeed some men have lost or been hounded from their jobs for daring to question the adoption of gender identity theory in their workplaces… It is positively McCarthyite.’
The report, authored by assistant professor at Coventry University Maureen O’Hara, called for the elimination of de facto declarations of gender identity in the criminal justice system and for data to be recorded on the basis of sex.