change the rape law stating a women can rape a man instead of sexual assault

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

The current UK law states that a women can not be charged with rape if she rapes a man, she will get charged with sexual assault. I believe this law is out dated and is unfair. A lot has changed over the years, some women are just as or even more worse than what a man can be.

UK law has defined rape as forced penetration, not forced to penetrate. Forced to penetrate is classified as sexual assault. Hence, the very low statistics on the rape of men. Research has shown that if forced to penetrate was classified as rape, and men were encouraged to come forward about the rape in the same way women are, then statistics for female on male rape would be just as high as male on female rape. Rape is classified as a victim being unable or unwilling to consent to sex

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Amend Exclusionary Rape Law that excludes woman from committing rape

Timeline

24 Nov 2016	Petition opened for signatures
28 Nov 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 28 Nov 2016

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