Under proposed guidance from the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC), biologically male staff who identify as women should be allowed to intimately search women as long as they possess a gender recognition certificate (GRC).
Police chiefs have quite rightly sparked fury and have been accused of taking ‘leave of their senses’.
The Mail Online reports: Meanwhile, the guidance also features a reference to dealing with the use of any ‘prejudicial language’ by detainees who refuse to be examined by a trans officer.
It comes after the NPCC last year withdrew its policy allowing biological males identifying as female to intimately search women.
But under the proposed new guidance – seen by the Mail – forces would be advised that trans officers can still strip-search people of their newly acquired gender if they have relevant documentation.
The proposed new policy, which will be considered by police chiefs next month, would allow a ‘trans employee to search in line with their Gender Recognition Certificate’.
Another force, British Transport Police, already has similar guidance in place and is currently facing a judicial review by women’s rights groups over the policy.
Maya Forstater, chief executive of Sex Matters, said: ‘Paying £5 for a piece of paper from the government doesn’t turn a male police officer into a female one, any more than wearing a dress or putting on lipstick would.
‘We regard this guidance as a serious breach of the fundamental rights of female detainees.’
The document, titled Searching by Transgender Employees of the Police Service, says that the previous policy was withdrawn after the Equality Human Rights Commission advised it was unlawful.
Under the proposed new guidance, trans officers without a GRC would be exempt from searching detainees with agreement from their force.
По материалам: http://www.planet-today.com/2025/02/transgender-police-officers-allowed-to.html