The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has come under fire for claiming that refusing to fund a family member’s ‘sex-swap’ surgery may be considered domestic abuse.
The guidance was updated in December, but has only now come to light. In it the CPS gives prosecutors examples of how “trans and non-binary people can be subjected to unique forms of domestic abuse”.
The list included withholding “money for transitioning”, “sharing pre-transition images” of a family member, refusing to use their “preferred name or pronoun” and destroying “medication or clothes”.
‘Confused’
The guidance states: “Gender identity is not the same as anatomical sex. Gender identity is what you know your gender to be and can only be decided by the individual for themselves.”
The CPS is so confused by gender ideology it is liable to mistake the victim for the perpetrator.
Speaking to the MailOnline, women’s rights campaigner Maya Forstater said: “Parents of children who identify as transgender should not be seen as abusers if they do not affirm their child as being ‘born in the wrong body’.”
“The CPS has shown itself again and again to be ideologically captured. They have produced materials telling school girls that they must accept males in girls toilets and guidance on rape by deception that forgets what sex people are.
“The CPS is so confused by gender ideology it is liable to mistake the victim for the perpetrator.”
Violence
The revelations come as a trans activist threatened physical violence against TERF’s — a slur commonly used for women who say a male cannot become female – at a pro-trans march in London at the weekend.
Sarah Jane Baker, who previously served 30 years in prison for kidnapping and attempted murder, claimed: “I was going to come here and be really fluffy, be really nice and be really lovely and queer and gay and laugh. But if you see a Terf, punch them”.
A Met Police spokesperson stated that it is reviewing a video of the incident to determine if any further action will be taken.
‘Detrimental’
The Women’s Rights Network (WRN) has written to the head of the CPS, Max Hill KC, over the guidance’s detrimental effect on “women’s trust and confidence” in the service.
WRN’s founder Heather Binning said: “How on earth can reluctance to pay for elective, unnecessary surgery from family finances be cited as an example of domestic abuse by anyone, let alone the CPS? The same document states that correctly referring to a family member’s sex is also abuse.
“This completely ignores the difficulties and emotions many people experience when a family member identifies as something they clearly are not.”
A CPS spokesperson said: “The list is not exhaustive and should be used as guidance, when considering appropriate charges in line with our legal test.”
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