Terrorists and paedophiles are able to choose from 51 gender identities in a Home Office database that tracks Britains most dangerous offenders.
Police leaders have acknowledged that “no formal risk assessment” was conducted before allowing extremists and sex offenders to be registered as “androgyne” or “pangender”.
The extensive list of niche gender options has been condemned as “madness”, and the Home Secretary has been urged to take action amid warnings that failing to accurately record a criminal’s biological sex could endanger public safety.
This follows a landmark Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday that “the concept of sex is binary” and the words “woman” and “man” refer to biological sex.
Terrorists and paedophiles are able to choose from 51 gender identities in a Home Office database that tracks Britains most dangerous offenders
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Authorities will now be expected to record the biological sex of criminals, rather than their preferred gender identity.
Speaking on Friday evening, Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Secretary said this proved police were “more interested in woke nonsense than arresting criminals”.
He told The Daily Mail: “Gender identity is irrelevant to a system that’s sole focus should be on protecting the public and tracking dangerous people. This is a recipe for operational failure.”
The Home Office has acknowledged that the offender tracking database – updated in 2022 to include a “gender identity” field – is now considered “outdated” and confirmed that a new system is currently in development.
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Among the gender identity options listed are terms such as “pangender”, “transgender person”, “androgyne”, and “neutrois”.
Several gender categories listed in the system are essentially duplicates – like “cis male” and “cis man” – due to offenders providing varying responses or inconsistencies in how officials recorded their identities.
These classifications appear in the Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR), a Home Office-run database used to monitor the UK’s most high-risk individuals after their release from prison.
According to the Ministry of Justice, ViSOR is used by police, prison services, and probation officers to “manage the risks posed by individuals convicted of serious violent, sexual, and terrorism offences living in the community in order to protect the public.”
Maya Forstater of the charity Sex Matters, said allowing offenders to be recorded as ridiculous genders wasted police time and taxpayers’ money and “makes a mockery of the justice system”.
She added: “There is no justification for this foolishness,. Police forces should focus on solving crime and keeping the public safe.”
Despite widespread criticism following the Isla Bryson case, some police forces continue to record rapists as female if that is how they identify.
Bryson, who began identifying as transgender while awaiting trial for two rapes, was convicted in 2023 and sentenced to eight years in prison. Initially placed in a women’s prison, Bryson was later moved to a men’s facility after public backlash.
Initially placed in a women’s prison, Bryson was later moved to a men’s facility after public backlash
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The list of gender identity options in the ViSOR database reveals 20 different “trans” categories available to offenders.
Those listed in the system can also self-identify as “gender fluid” – meaning their gender may shift based on how they feel – as well as “genderqueer” or simply “other”.
The term “androgyne” refers to someone who is both male and female, or exists somewhere in between, while “neutrois” is associated with gender neutrality or the absence of gender altogether.
According to separate Ministry of Justice figures, three individuals convicted of terrorism offences were recorded on ViSOR in 2023 as either “gender fluid” or “non-binary” – rather than male or female.
The ViSOR database is used across the UK by police in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, as well as by the Probation Service and HM Prison Service.
Annual figures by the Ministry of Justice show that the database conflates biological sex and gender identity in their official data.
A Home Office spokesman said: “The ViSOR system was developed twenty-five years ago, in an effort to maximise the information collected and shared about known offenders and thereby help the police keep track of them.
