Suella Braverman tells gender-critical feminists that police should not refer to transgender rapists as women because it is ‘offensive and factually incorrect’

Police should not describe transgender rapists as women because it is ‘offensive and factually incorrect’, Suella Braverman has told an audience of gender-critical feminists. 

The Home Secretary voiced her opinions on the issue during a discussion with policing leaders and women’s rights campaigners, who have complained of not feeling protected by the police. 

The activists claim that gender-critical women were being abused in public without appropriate action being taken by police to protect them. The term refers to someone who believes sex is binary and someone who is born male cannot become a woman. 

Earlier this month it emerged police had wrongly labelled hundreds of rape suspects as women in referrals to the Crown Prosecution Service – despite Ms Braverman’s orders not to.

Over the last four years, police forces have referred 260 ‘females’ to the CPS to consider a rape charge, according to freedom of information requests by the The Telegraph.

Suella Braverman voiced her opinions on the issue of gender identity during a discussion with policing leaders and women’s rights campaigners

The Home Secretary with Superintendent Ronan Tyrer of West Midlands Police during a county lines raid on October 11 

Another 209 alleged sex attackers have been recorded as an ‘unknown’ sex, which is thought to include people who identify as non-binary. 

Despite the Home Office insisting police should record the biological sex, it remains voluntary guidance and is down to each force.

By law, only men can commit rape. Feminist activists are concerned that self-declaring gender gets around a legal loophole.

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It follows a row earlier this year after trans rapist Isla Bryson sent to a women’s prison in Scotland. She was later transferred to a men’s jail following a major outcry.

Convicted paedophile and rapist Karen White, who was born a man, molested female inmates in a three-month reign of terror at New Hall women’s prison in West Yorkshire. 

White, 57, who still has male genitalia, was moved to a men’s prison and later received a life sentence for a series of sex crimes. 

Among the groups at the roundtable were Fair Cop, which championed the case of Harry Miller – a former police officer who was investigated by officers for retweeting a poem which suggested transgender women were still men.

One attendee, Heather Binning, from the Women’s Rights Network, claimed police training had been hijacked by trans activists. 

‘They should rip out all of this training,’ she said. ‘They are misrepresenting the law that if someone says they are a woman, you must treat them as a woman.’

In a tweet, Mrs Braverman said: ‘Yesterday I chaired a roundtable with key policing partners & women’s rights campaigners to discuss women’s confidence in policing, police impartiality & the role of single-sex spaces. It was a valuable meeting with numerous recommendations for consideration.’  

Feminists holding gender-critical views are sometimes branded TERFS – meaning ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminist’. 

It follows a row earlier this year after trans rapist Isla Bryson sent to a women’s prison in Scotland. She was later transferred to a men’s jail following a major outcry

Convicted paedophile and rapist Karen White, who was born a man, molested female inmates in a three-month reign of terror at New Hall women’s prison in West Yorkshire

Trans activist Sarah Jane Baker, 54, was recently cleared of encouraging assault after telling a crowd at a rally to ‘punch a TERF’.

Baker, who served 30 years in jail for kidnap and attempted murder, made the comments at the London Trans+ Pride march on July 8.

A recording played of the march shows the activist shouting into microphone: ‘I was gonna come here and be really fluffy and be really nice and say be really lovely and queer and gay, nah if you see a TERF, punch them in the f****** face’. 

Baker was first jailed in 1989, aged 19, for kidnapping and torturing her stepmother’s 19-year-old brother.

She was later given a life sentence for the attempted murder of a fellow inmate while in prison – of which she served 30 years before her release in 2019, making her the UK’s longest serving trans prisoner.

Trans activist Sarah Jane Baker, 54, was filmed calling for supporters to ‘punch’ gender-critical feminists  

Baker, who served 30 years in jail for kidnap and attempted murder, made the comments at the London Trans+ Pride march on July 8. She was recalled to jail after being charged  

After appearing at the central London rally last month, Baker was reported to police and arrested at her home and taken to Charing Cross Police Station on July 12.

The defendant denied intentionally encouraging the commission of an offence, namely assault by beating. Baker accepted she said the words but denied intent and said she was entitled to freedom of expression. 

Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram found Baker, of Richmond, not guilty and the public gallery applauded.

He said he was not sure that when she said those words she intended for them to be carried out.

He added: ‘I think it’s also possible you’re just, as you say, an idiot who was trying to get attention to your cause, that you didn’t intend for people to do it, but you said it because you wanted the publicity.’

Heather Binning, founder of Women’s Rights Network today told MailOnline: ‘Women are being failed at every level. We are subjected to harassment and abuse for stating facts. 

‘Police stand by while men incite violence against women— yet women are being questioned for alleged non-crime hate incidents for refusing to call a man a woman.’

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