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Male police officers intimately searching female suspects is state sanctioned sexual assault. (British Transport Police)

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MrBungle · 04/12/2024 15:17

Male police officers can strip-search women under new guidance issued by the British Transport Police (BTP)

The guidance, allows male staff to intimately search women so long as they have a gender recognition certificate (GRC).

https://archive.ph/iwvtW
(link to Telegraph article)

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lifeturnsonadime · 04/12/2024 15:23

This is disgraceful. Males with the legal fiction that is the Gender Recognition Certificate are still biological males. They may be 'legally' female but this should not give the right to do roles reserved for women.

Hopefully the FWS case at the Supreme Court will put paid to this nonsense.

In any event British Transport Police is in the wrong. The Equality Act allows people with a GRC to be excluded from sex specific roles. They are choosing to ignore this exemption to favour the males.

So we should all email the BTS to ask why it is they think it is appropriate for women to be strip searched by biological males?

It's almost like they hate women.

Breatheincalmbreatheouttension · 04/12/2024 15:18

Horrendous.