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    When is a rape not a rape?

    Jun 24, 2021 6 minutes
    Julie Bindel

    STONEWALL HAS LONG CAMPAIGNED for gender identity to trump biological sex in law, policy and wider society. This is well-known by the increasing numbers of us in the trenches of the gender war. Taking the “trans women are women” mantra to its logical conclusion, it is no wonder the equal rights charity is now seeking to make changes to the criminal code that could lead to a redefinition of sexual offences.

    What has now become a trans-rights lobby group is calling for a change in the law that would protect trans men and trans woman initiating a sexual encounter with someone, while actively, falsely, claiming to be of the same sex from being charged with sexual assault. The so-called “sex by deception” clause.

    While I have grave concerns about the convictions of Gayle Newland and Justine McNally (both lesbians who, it is claimed, posed as men during sexual encounters with female sexual partners), we need to be realistic. Men identifying as lesbian trans women while keeping their identity from

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