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[–]ClassroomPast6178 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nope, that’s wrong.

What makes rape a crime that, in the UK, only a man can commit is that the act is defined as penetration with a penis (Section 1, Sexual Offences Act 2003), not the identity claimed or bestowed upon the holder of the penis. The pronouns used in the definition of the act have no bearing on whether forcing your girlcock into someone against their will is rape…the act of penis going somewhere it wasn’t wanted is what makes it rape and not “just” a sexual assault.

The rapist known as Karen White was charged, prosecuted and found guilty of two rapes whilst claiming to be a woman.

I’m not sure why you think a man penetrating a man with a penis isn’t rape…that’s just plain bizarre. Reynhard Sinaga was convicted of 136 rapes against men and the police think the number may actually be hundreds more (and there’s another case going on right now where there may be hundreds of male victims of rape).

So in short, no one is getting let off of a rape charge by a pronoun technicality and same-sex rape is prosecuted as rape.