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“Transwomen should be able to strip search women if they have a GRC”

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SidewaysOtter · 10/01/2024 22:55

Chris Philp, the policing minister says that transwomen should “only” be able to strip search women if they have a GRC: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-gender-police-officers-strip-search-id-xfvwsdjgn

On one hand, it stops the self-identified transwomen but NO man - and transwomen ARE biologically male - should be involved in the strip search of a woman. A GRC does not change their biological sex. And any transwoman who insists on a “right” to strip search women raises more red flags than a communist rally.

Mr Philip can be tweeted at @CPhilpOfficial, if anyone else wants to make their feelings known.

Trans police officers ‘should have gender ID papers to carry out strip search’

Ministers have told police chiefs to stop transgender officers conducting strip searches unless they have a gender recog­nition certificate.Research from the Women’s Rights Network found that the

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-gender-police-officers-strip-search-id-xfvwsdjgn

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SpicyMoth · 10/01/2024 23:14

I.... Wow.
Ooc, do we know how many trans identifying police officers there even are...?

Apollo441 · 10/01/2024 23:10

Surely a proportinate means of achieving a legitmate aim (that being the searching of women and girls by an officer of the same sex for dignity and privacy) would allow a GRC to be disregarded. GRCs can be ignored for a host of reasons where women are vulnerable so why not here???? I cannot believe the need for validation overrides the requirement for searches by the same SEX. I think the minister has been given duff advice.