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JK Rowling is right to call out Police Scotland's transgender nonsense

14 December 2021

2:57 AM

14 December 2021

2:57 AM

How should police record a rape where the culprit has male genitalia? The answer might appear to be straightforward: a man is responsible. Yet in Scotland, where the SNP’s obsession with avoiding offence appears to trump reality, things could soon be more complicated.

Police Scotland have said that they may log rapes as being carried out by a woman if the alleged culprit identifies as such.

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