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

[SidewaysOtter]

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.

Agree.

It would have been 20 or 30 years ago when I first read about Dworkin's experience in prison where she was given a medical pelvic examination that caused her to bleed for days.
I loved Dworkin, I knew from first hand experience that sexual assault was still enabled, denied, minimised across the board, but the idea of sexual assault happening at the hands of the authorities, using law enforcement procedures to do it - that gave me a full "past is a different country" feeling.
I really, truly believed that state sexual violence was a thing of the past.