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Really depressing to realize just how little queer politicians and organisations think of women and lesbians. Imagine gay men being no-platformed if transmen demanded it? Pfff, the gay health minister in norway is a lesbophobe and a misogynist. https://twitter.com/TonjeGjevjon/status/1269226445597028353
Norway introduced self-declaration of sex (not gender) in 2016. The stated purpose of this, was to specifically allow people to be legally recognized as their preferred sex (not gender) WITHOUT having to undergo or plan to undergo ANY consultations or changes.
Specifically, in order to score points on the IGLA "sexual rights" list, which list how well countries are implementing the Yogyakarta Principles, self-declaration of sex was allowed specifically so that people could maintain their bodies. 3/
Which means, in Norway, fully intact males can register themselves as female for any or no reason. The same is also true for females, of course. 4/
And why would this be a problem? There can't be that many people who wish to have a national insurance number that reflect their subjective experience of their sex? In what scenario would it matter?
States who have signed the UN convention for the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against women (CEDAW) have an obligation to keep statistics that reflect the reality of women's situation. 5/
One of the aspects of women's situation that states keep track of, is rape. The Norwegian police academy annually publish the report "Rape in Norway". The report is based on the data pulled from the national insurance numbers of those reported for rape, and of their victims. 6/
Wheras the bias introduced by males being registered as female (and vica versa) would be small in most statistics, one can expect statistics which are already based on small samples to be affected more seriously. One example of this is women who are reported for rape. 7/
In the year following self-declaration of sex, the number of women reported for rape increased from a steady 12 pr year, to 41. That is a massive increase. 8/
This increase is partly explained by a change in the definition of rape (15 of the cases are explained to be due to this change). 9/
But, considering the radical change to the variable "sex" the previous year, which was specifically implemented in order for people to "change their sex" whilst also retaining fully intact bodies:
could the massive increase in the number of women reported for rape in the year after self-id was implemented, be related to the increase of male-bodied "females"?
In any case, I began to wonder, how had the police academy and their research groups met the radical change in the variable "sex"? What techniques was in place in order to meet the criteria set out in CEDAW?
CEDAW specifies that sex is "the physiological properties that distinguish men from women". Is it still possible to distinguish men from women on the basis of sex after a country has implemented self-declaration of SEX?
And is it possible to confirm or deny wether male-bodied people are included in the category "women reported for rape"?
So I emailed the police academy, and asked one of the senior statiticians in charge of the report:
is it possible for researchers to check if someone has changed their registered sex? Is it possible to confirm or deny that the increase, from 12 to 41, in women reported for rape, has any correlation with the increase of male-bodied "females" the same period?
The answer was not only no, but it was something that had not even crossed their mind. Furthermore, they did not seem to understand that self-id even existed, and, even more illuminating: they thought "trans woman" meant "woman who wish to be percieved as a man" (!!!!!)
I do not blame them for misunderstanding the term, because there was no risk assessments *whatsoever* before the Norwegian government decided to implement self-declaration of sex, let alone any consequence assessments.
If they had done, they might have realized just how poorly people's grasp of gender identity politics really is, and of course,
they might have realized that the entire concept of self-declaration of SEX is in breech with women's existing sex-based rights.
The Norwegian government thought some random organisation's ranking of Norway, based on some random "yogyakarta principles", were more important than the *existing rights* of half their country's population.
The report "Rape in Norway 2017" made sure to track the effects on a paragraph that changed the categorisation of certain kinds of sex-acts. But no-one thought to track the effects of the changes made to the entire variable "sex" ?
Gender identity politics is such an epic clusterfuck of misogyni. Women literally do not count in Norway or to the politicians and the people supporting this ideology.
