Current guidance from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) recommends forces ask suspects if they are “male”, “female” or “intersex”.
But it goes on to state that: “Using the term ‘gender’ as a substitute for the term ‘sex’ is not appropriate as gender is not a protected characteristic.
“Gender is a social construction relating to behaviours and attributes based on labels of masculinity and femininity.”
Tho’ that intersex box would remain unticked often. If it’s being used properly that is, and not for “non-binary”.
The vast majority of intersex people don’t realise they are intersex, as they’ve not had any form of medical intervention that has discovered it.
Sex is an observed characteristic. So why the question?
” that intersex box would remain unticked often.”
You can get pictures of intersex boxes on the internet, and personally I wouldn’t want to tick any of them.
Is “intersex” properly a synonym for hermaphrodite? If so, that box would rarely be ticked.
I think the big picture is being missed. I am hoping that this halfwit is correct and that we can return to a world where militantly mentally ill people can’t warp reality.
https://www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-court-ruling-anti-trans-women/
If the problem were confined to a few unfortunate souls it could be treated with benign neglect by most of us, and tea and sympathy from the people who happen to know the poor blighters.
But if you politicise, radicalise, and medicalise a rare type of insanity you get trouble.
The poor souls might care to think through the disservice The Left has done them. They might even like to take lessons in machine-gunning or lion-taming.
Dearime: precisely. They’ve been had for fools all right.
Intersex = hermaphrodite. In humans often not noticed until puberty when the testes don’t develop (two fertilised eggs fuse to form a single zygote = XXY chromosomes) or at birth with the presence of poorly developed male & female genitalia (the gene on the Y chromosome responsible for forming the testes, transfers to the X chromosome during meiosis, so an XX results with one X trying to form testes and the other ovaries.?
It is not a choice.
The correct term for the nonsense being spouted is “Body dysmorphia” which is a dissatisfaction with the physical characteristics of the body which do not match the characteristics of an imagined inner person that is the perceived “true” self. It can involve – for example – sighted people whose true self is blind, a normal bipedal person whose true self only has one foot, or a make whose true self doesn’t have male genitalia but instead female genitalia.
I’m not sure how I’d react if a policewoman came up to me and asked me
“Excuse me sir, are you intersex ?”
Surely your answer would be: “Oh yes, I’m well into sex. And you?” Comedic possibilities abound.
Infamy, inferme……if jokes are arriving from 60 year old Carry On scripts…..well, let’s just say they’re classics, right?
@ VP
I think the big picture is being missed. I am hoping that this halfwit is correct and that we can return to a world where militantly mentally ill people can’t warp reality.
https://www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-court-ruling-anti-trans-women/
Another mentalist troon in the same vein as Carrie. If he thinks the Japanese are going to open their doors to him, he’s got another reality check coming.