Again with the dishonest concealing language.

Transgender police allowed to strip-search women under new guidance

Once more slowly for those all the way at the back:

“Transgender” is not the issue; the issue is MALE. The issue is MALE police allowed to strip-search women. Saying “transgender” when you mean “male” just conceals and veils and obfuscates what is being forced on women.

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

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

Say the “male” bit up front, in the headline and the first sentence, not after both. Stop playing their game.

The guidance says officers can search people of the same sex as “either their birth certificate or GRC” in BTP jurisdiction. 

Authorised in September by the assistant chief constable for network policing, it reads: “British Transport Police recognises the status of transgender and non-binary detainees/staff from the moment they permanently identify in that gender with or without a GRC.

“This means that even when a person has not legally changed their sex, we should continue to use the correct pronouns and recognise the person’s gender. BTP officers/staff will only search persons of the same sex as either their birth certificate or GRC.”

That’s incoherent – by “continue to use” they must mean “nevertheless use.” But hey, it’s cops, and it’s cops blathering about a ridiculous dangerous to women policy, so expecting them to blather it coherently is expecting too much.

Anyway, point is: police say hell yes men can strip-search women, as long as they get some kind of certificate at some point, when they get around to it.

Cathy Larkman, retired police superintendent and national policing lead for the Women’s Rights Network, labelled the new guidance “state-sanctioned sexual assault”.

She said: “British Transport Police think that the possession of a GRC conveys some sort of right for a male officer to strip-search a woman, or for a female officer to be pressurised into searching a male detainee.

“Their eagerness to bring this in despite the clear warnings made indicates that they have forgotten about women’s rights, or at best that these can be dispensed with. But women have human rights too.

“It is appalling that police chiefs are so intent on disregarding the law and shocking that it is left to women to hold them to account and to remind them that not so long ago, they promised to rebuild women’s trust. Those were hollow words.

“This is state-sanctioned sexual assault and police chiefs have lost their mind bringing this in. They have failed women, it is absolutely unforgivable. It cannot go on.”

Notice how clearly she says it, unlike the shameless authors of that ludicrous “guidance.”