British Transport Police guidance permits “male staff identifying as female to intimately search women so long as they have a gender recognition certificate (GRC).” The delusion of the transgender cult continues to unfold in many places in the West, overriding even the #meToo movement.
In November this year, the British Transport Police (BTP) determined that it was permissible for a biologically male officer who identifies as a female to strip-search women in its new Transgender Search Policy, according to various media reports.
As per an article by The Telegraph, BTP guidance permits “male staff identifying as female to intimately search women so long as they have a gender recognition certificate (GRC).”
Titled ‘Transgender and Non-Binary Search Position’, the assistant chief constable for network policing authorized the document in September, as per an article by Daily Mail.
The BTP document added:
“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.”
Put simply, an officer who is a biological male but claims he is a female and has a “gender-recognition certificate” can demand that a female suspect remove her clothes to be subject to a thorough physical search.
Based on British law, any adult who has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and who has been living life according to their “new gender” for at least two years can obtain a gender-recognition certificate, even without any kind of hormone treatment or reassignment surgery.
Based on British law, any adult who has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and who has been living life according to their “new gender” for at least two years can obtain a gender-recognition certificate, even without any kind of hormone treatment or reassignment surgery.
The recent guidance came after previous reprisals this year that resulted in the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) pulling back on similar national policing guidelines, The Telegraph reported.
In remarks cited by The Telegraph, Cathy Larkman, retired police superintendent and national policing lead for the Women’s Rights Network, decried the recent set of guidelines as “state-sanctioned sexual assault”.
She declared: “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 pressurized 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.”
Likewise, Maya Forstater, chief executive of Sex Matters, penned a pre-action letter to the BTP, lambasting the recent guidelines as amounting to “indirect discrimination and harassment against women detainees, women officers and women travelling on public transport in the UK”. Moreover, the letter stated that the BTP guidance puts “women at risk of fear, humiliation, indignity, and harassment”.
Despite efforts by the transgender cult to assure a cautious public that transgender people usually pose no risk to women and children, actual case studies prove otherwise.
Despite efforts by the transgender cult to assure a cautious public that transgender people usually pose no risk to women and children, actual case studies of police abuse of power, such as the case of serial rapist David Carrick, prove otherwise.
(For the uninitiated, Carrick was a serial abuser and rapist who used his police uniform to groom his victims before cruelly abusing and torturing them. pleaded guilty to 49 charges, including 24 counts of rape against 12 different women, between 2003 and 2020. Notwithstanding red flags, the British authorities permitted Carrick to remain in his role for two decades and even promoted him.)
Evidently, predators like Carrick could abuse the powers of self-identification in their hunt for unsuspecting prey. Even if women were to feel daunted if a biologically male officer were to strip-search them, their concerns would be conveniently put aside in the name of inclusivity and political correctness.
If Britain was not currently managed by a cabal of Marxists, perhaps the authorities might have the gumption to act like Donald Trump did during his first administration, when he banned transgender Americans from joining the military.
Such trans-pandering, which is completely out of sync with reality, just has to stop.
Yet in post-Christian Britain, where governing elites and considerable swathes of the population neither give a hoot about objective truth nor care about the sanctity of human life, such a scenario might be wishful thinking, at least in the near future.
In any case, women’s advocacy groups and faithful Catholics should lobby to ban biologically male officers from strip-searching female suspects, regardless of what license or certificate these officers may have or whether they think they are “females”. Such trans-pandering, which is completely out of sync with reality, just has to stop.
The British people deserve better.
