Scotland Will Return to Classifying Rapists as ‘Male,’ Sorta…

Is the world healing?

Well, yes and no. In some places, common sense is returning, and in others, the left is fighting very successful battles to keep their momentum on gender issues going. 

In Scotland, where alphabet insanity has been dominant for a while, the Chief Constable is trying to find a middle ground on what should be a simple binary issue. 

Scotland’s Chief Constable states rapists will always be recorded as male …after years of ‘mixed messages’ https://t.co/x35VZUX86y

— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) November 12, 2025

As Jim Hightower once said, “There’s nothing in the middle of the road aside from yellow lines and dead armadillos.” Hightower said that, as a leftist, but there’s more than a little truth in the saying. 

So, how is Constable Jo Farrell trying to split the baby on the gender identity of a biological male who rapes a woman? 

POLICE Scotland has given too many ‘mixed messages’ on gender self-ID, the Chief Constable has admitted as she pledged that a rapist will always be recorded as a man.

Jo Farrell acknowledged that she needed to give further clarity on the issue due to the single police force’s approach in the past.

But she also admitted that a biological male who self-identifies as female would be treated as a woman while in custody.

She also refused to give her view on whether any man who declares themselves to be a woman should be sent to a female prison.

The comments came in evidence to Holyrood’s citizen participation committee about a petition calling for police, the Crown Office and the Scottish Courts to all ‘accurately record the sex of the people charged or convicted of rape or attempted rape’.

Ms Farrell said: ‘Police Scotland supports the petition.

‘A man who rapes or attempts to rape a woman, girl or other victim is, should be and will be recorded by Police Scotland as a male.’

She said gender self-ID is a ‘complex’ area but vowed that her ‘priority is to protect victims’.

No, gender self-ID is not complex in the least, and choosing the Solomonic path of splitting the baby doesn’t actually benefit anyone. 

You can’t be a man in one moment and a woman a few moments after that. And, if you are a sane and decent person, you shouldn’t toss a male rapist into a women’s prison because he utters a few words that will place him in a prison surrounded by potential victims. 

There is no more dangerous realm than the law to insert confusion and ambiguity in the meaning of terms. A person might decide to avoid confrontation or be polite while choosing to use female pronouns for a man in a dress, but when it comes to making legal decisions, it is vital that terms mean something quite specific. 

Politesse and prosecution do not tend to overlap comfortably. 

Critical Legal Theory is all about eliminating the precision of words and concepts in order to bend the law to the whims of the left, and there are few places where that is more obvious than wiping away the meaning of the terms “man and woman.” 

Not that the CLT people don’t use the same strategy in every policy area they want to reshape. What makes this particular issue stand out is not the technique of obfuscation, but how successful it has been in wiping away the plain meaning of terms that have the most obvious and concrete definitions. 

But she went on: ‘On reflection, and having observed the intense public debate around gender identification and the at times mixed messages from Police Scotland – for example in freedom of information responses and correspondence to this committee – I wanted to provide further clarity and direction in this area.

‘It was important for victims to hear from me as Chief Constable that there is no doubt in our practice: a man committing a rape will be recorded as a male.’

She told MSPs that a person’s transgender status will be recorded ‘where relevant’ in addition to biological sex for suspects and victims of all crimes.

When pressed on whether Police Scotland’s approach had been wrong, she said she felt there needed to be ‘greater clarity brought to our position’.

Committee member Fergus Ewing asked for clarification of whether someone would be treated as a man or a women as they progress through the criminal justice system if they are a biological male who identifies as a woman.

Ms Farrell said: ‘The person would be recorded as a man, as a biological man, they would be recorded on the system as a man. In terms of the treatment of that person while in our care in custody we would seek to engage with them in the identity that they want to be known.

That policy is, of course, incoherent. Either transwomen are women or they are not. 

Of course, we do the same gymnastics when it comes to infants in the womb. If they are “wanted,” then they are living human beings and killing them is murder; if they are not “wanted,” they are inanimate clumps of biological matter to be disposed of at will. 

It’s the same with paternity, of course. If a man gets a woman pregnant, he has no say in whether that infant is aborted or not. Her body, her choice. But if she chooses to keep the infant, he is on the hook for child support. It is his child sometimes, and not his child other times. It all depends upon whim. 

I vote for no abortion and marriage, of course. Murder for convenience or financial gain is uncivilized unless you are John Wick.

When asked if the force will record cases where a biological man identifies as a female, Deputy Chief Constable Alan Speirs said: ‘We will look to record that and I think in our experience there has been lots of conflation about sex and gender identity, and we want to be really, really clear.’

Following yesterday’s session, policy group Murray Blackburn Mackenzie – which lodged the petition – said: ‘We hope that this balanced and respectful approach signals a fresh start for Police Scotland, not only in relation to data, but in its handling of issues around sex and gender identity more widely.

‘A question remains as to how the Chief Constable’s predecessors and their senior colleagues allowed the capture of the force’s policies and practices, to the detriment of something so basic as the accurate recording of sex in criminal investigations.

‘It should not have taken so many years of pressure and scrutiny to get Police Scotland to abandon its defence of recording some male offenders as women, so that this ended up in the overflowing inbox of the current Chief Constable.’

Someday, and I hope that day comes soon, the past decade will be recorded as an era of madness akin to so many others that have occurred throughout history. Whether it is the Tulip mania, the burning of witches, or the Satanic Panic, people can get swept up in manias that, in retrospect, are seen as mass insanity. 

Gender ideology is one such mania, and it can’t end soon enough. The victimization of women and children is appalling.