Speaking of “distracted”
The national police leader on child protection and abuse investigations has urged officers not to be “distracted” by media coverage of grooming gangs, emphasising it is one element of a wider threat.
Becky Riggs, an assistant chief constable, said analysis of child sex crimes reported to police made it clear that “group-based offending occurs in various forms, in diverse settings, and across different ethnicities”.
She urged a “balanced approach to addressing the threat in all its forms”, adding that “children are at risk from perpetrators of all races, ethnicities and genders”.
Excuse me?
Perps of “all genders” go after children? Really? Women sexually abuse children just as much as men do?
There is nothing in the article that backs up her claim.
The report, based on 2023 data, stated that there were 4,228 reported group-based crimes out of a total 115,489 child sexual exploitation and abuse crimes. Of the group-based offences, more than a quarter were familial, 9 per cent were institutional and 17 per cent were in a child sexual exploitation setting involving an imbalance of power. Nearly 40 per cent of offending did not fit a category and 9 per cent was unknown. More than 80 per cent of suspects were white, 7 per cent were Asian, 4 per cent were black and 8 per cent mixed or other.
See? “Gender” not mentioned. Did she throw it in by accident because it’s formulaic? If you mention races and ethnicities you have to mention genders too?
Of course, with trans-identified males being counted as women in the statistics, without any indication they are actually men, it won’t be long before it appears that “all genders” are perps.
Though I found grammar to be intensely boring in school, in English to my knowledge, the are three genders of pronouns, etc, based on the idea of there being things of three states: male, female, and neuter, and covered by words such as ‘he,’ ‘she,’ and ‘it.’. The latter category in living things can be applied to all living organisms down to and including the bacteria.
But to convert a male anything into a female of the same species would require not just total reconstruction of (largely extenal) male genitalia into.(mainly internal) female genitalia, but the replacement of every Y chromosome in every cell by another X, coverting every XY combo in the body’s gene collection to XX..
Hence, when mariners of both sexes refer to their boats large and small as ‘she,’ they are not referring to any inherent reproductive capability, cellular composition or genital construction. They do it by linguistic convention.
And when a male pretender enters a females-only facility, he should be greeted with commands such as: “Avast there, yer lubber; you’re in the wrong harbour.!”