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Trans women to be strip searched by male transport police after court ruling
Trans women in British Transport Police custody will now be strip searched by male officers - not female - following Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling.
The force said it is introducing an "interim position" while it digests the Supreme Court's decision that the definition of a "woman" under the Equality Act 2010 refers to "a biological woman and biological sex". A British Transport Police (BTP) Authority spokesman told Sky News: "Under previous policy, we had advised that someone with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) may be searched in accordance with their acquired sex.
"However, as an interim position while we digest today's judgment, we have advised our officers that any same sex searches in custody are to be undertaken in accordance with the biological birth sex of the detainee." Politics latest: Badenoch responds to Jenrick WhatsApp mishap In September last year, BTP, which is responsible for policing the UK's railways and similar transport systems, published its "position" on transgender and non-binary officers carrying out strip searches. It said officers would "only be able to search persons of the same sex on their birth or gender recognition certificate (GRC).
Officers who identified as another gender but who did not have a GRC were not allowed to, but if a trans woman had a certificate, they could strip search a female detainee. Strip searches involve the removal of more than a jacket, outer coat, gloves, headwear and footwear.
They "expose buttocks, genitalia and (female) breasts.
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