Rejected petition Change The Sexual Offence Act To Make Rape Fairer Based On Gender.

The current definition of Rape within the UK law is unfair. In the current law, only men can be charged with the Criminal Offence of Rape. Women, whom, drug and force men to penetration them are only charged with Sexual Assault which is not the same! Rape is rape and shouldn't be based on gender.

More details

"A person commits rape if they intentionally penetrate the vagina, anus or mouth of another person with their penis without consent." This is the definition of Rape given by the MET Police. In this country only men can be charged and prosecuted with Rape. When a woman rapes a man, she is charged with Sexual Assault which is defined as, by the MET Police as "A person commits sexual assault if they intentionally touch another person, the touching is sexual and the person does not consent."

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/106951

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 29 February 2016
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.