Transsexual rape - A loophole closed?

Criminal Law Review

Volumn 1997, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 565-570

  Hicks, Martin ^a   Branston, Gareth ^a  

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References (19)

1. Tan (1983) 76 Cr.App.R. 300.
2. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, Lords, Volume 556, Column 1607, July 11, 1994.
3. See Martin Morgan-Taylor and Philip Rumney, "A Male Perspective on Rape" (1994) 144 N.L.J. 1490.
4. See Andrew Neville Sharpe, "The Failure to Degenderise the Law of Rape: the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act and the Transsexual Victim" (1995) 53 The Criminal Lawyer 7.
5. (1983) 76 Cr.App.R. 300.
6. Part 2 of this Act amended the Crimes Act 1958.
7. s.3 of the Crimes (Sexual Offences) Act 1991, creating a new s.39 of the Crimes Act 1958.
8. A procedure known as phalloplasty. See J. J. Hage, "Medical Requirements and Consequences of Sex Reassignment Surgery" (1995) 35 Med.Sci.Law 17.
9. The corollory of Tan, n. 1 above.
10. Gaston (1981) 73 Cr.App.R. 164.
11. 1 Hale 669. See Archbold 1997, para. 20-130.
12. 1 East P.C. 480; 1 Hawk. c.4. See also Blackstone's Criminal Practice 1997 para. B3.73.
13. [1970] 2 All E.R. 33. This case concerned the validity of a marriage between a man and a male-female transsexual possessing an artificial vagina.
14. ibid. at 49h.
15. [1962] 3 All E.R. 55.
16. ibid. at 63c.
17. [1970] 2 All E.R. 33.
18. ibid. at 49h-50a.
19. s.37 of the Crimes Act 1958, as inserted by s.3 of the Crimes (Sexual Offences) Act 1991.