"Transgender" Sexual Offenders

MOJ FOI Responses: Transgender Sexual Offenders (England & Wales)

2019-20 Clare B Dimyon MOJ_FOI-Ref-201023-024 (12 Nov 2020) NIL DUE TO COVID - data collection due end March 2021

2018-19 Clare B Dimyon MOJ_FOI-Ref_191105-030 (17 Dec 2019)

2017-18 Clare B Dimyon MOJ_FOI-Ref-200827-019 (25 Sept 2020)

2016-17 Clare B Dimyon MOJ_FOI-Ref-191003-008 (30 Oct 2019) - to establish what the BBC had asked

2016-17 BBC Surreality Check Part 1 (Jan 2018) BBC_MOJ_FOI-Ref_180112-005 i) Transgender Sexual Offenders ii) No. of Sexual Offences convicted for

Part 2 (May 2018) BBC_MOJ_FOI-Ref_180427-014 iii) Breakdown of types of Sexual Offence

2015-16 Clare B Dimyon MOJ FOI-Ref 201023-024 (12 Nov 2020)

2018-19 Clare B Dimyon MOJ_FOI-Ref_191105-030 (17 Dec 2019)

• 81 transgender sexual offenders, sentenced ie convicted of one or more sexual offences (& serving a custodial sentences)

• 146 sexual offences

• 40 of rape & 10 of attempted rape - crimes of definitively male genitalia in all UK jurisdictions incl. England & Wales

confirmed by 2018-19 FPFW_MOJ_FOI-Ref_200615-022 13 July 2020

HMPPS Offender Equality Report: 163 "Transgender" offenders (MOJ definition) - excluding transgender offenders with GRCs

32 self-describing as "legal gender - female" | 129 self-describing as "legal gender - male" | 2 did not state (DNS)

Sources for these statistics available below.