Trans women in custody will be searched by male officers following Wednesday’s landmark Supreme Court ruling, the British Transport Police have said.

A British Transport Police spokesperson said: “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 yesterday’s judgement, 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.

“We are in the process of reviewing the implications of the ruling and will consider any necessary updates to our policies and practices in line with the law and national guidance.”

  • LuckingFurker (Any/All)
    11·
    25 days ago

    Leaving aside that you’re treating “women” as separate from “trans women”, which women? Who has been negatively affected by letting trans women pee in peace? And now this is going to negatively affect cis women as well as trans women. And this hysteria over trans women is already doing harm to cis women even before the supreme court ruling. Literally all of this is just worse for women, over some imagined problem that this was supposed to “fix”.

    I’m fully aware that you aren’t arguing in good faith so this will be my last response to you

      • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
        8·
        25 days ago

        Woman means adult human female, and Man means Human Adult Male. That is the literal definition.

        The actual, literal definition of woman:

        Screenshot of Cambridge dictionary showing two meaning of the word 'woman'. 1: "an adult female human being", 2: "an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth"

        Words aren’t bestowed upon us, we make them up and can decide their meaning.

        I was far from a feminist in my younger years but the way women are treated now is abhorrent. Especially in sports and places like Changing rooms.

        So you don’t actually care about patriarchal oppression women face everyday and the systemic violence they face from men, but like using them as a cudgel against trans people. The reason most feminists are trans inclusive (apart from it being the morally correct position) is that definitions of womanhood that are bioessentialist is a tool of patriarchal oppression.

        You can argue a trans Women is a women all you like but you had to prefix

        It’s an adjective, under this logic blonde women aren’t women.

          • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
            8·
            25 days ago

            That is not the Scientific definition of woman. Woman is a descriptive word for Female adult. Your “gender” version has no basis is science or biology.

            There is no scientific definition of woman, women are a social category. What it means to be a women is only tangentially related to biology.

            I’m don’t talking on this now. Society does not reflect you or people on heres opinions. We are tired of the Smallest minority effecting politics/lives and women.

            You are not society and you don’t speak for it. You are an incurious bigot too stubborn in your ignorance to grow as a person. It’s also lovely to be lectured to on language by a person who can’t use capital letters or apostrophes properly. Ta-ra.

              • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
                5·
                25 days ago

                When you are losing an argument you attack the person not the content.

                It’d help if you ‘argument’ was more than just repeating “I’m right, people who disagree with me are an insane minority” ad nauseam, mixed in with a good amount of linguistic prescriptionism.

                In a scientific context, a woman is generally defined as an individual of the sex that typically produces egg cells.

                Even if that was true, what does it have to do with the Equalities Act? You know, a law regulating society, so should surely use the social definition of woman? You keep brining up ‘the science’ as if our daily lives abide by the rules and definitions of scientific study.

      • primal_buddhist@lemmy.world
        5·
        25 days ago

        Actually that’s over reaching what the judgement said. The SC said that the equalities act, as worded, needs the word female to mean biological in order to make sense. Not that trans women could not be women, just not with regards to way this specific act was worded if you were relying on it. Now parliament can review the act and see how differently to word it to accommodate both female at birth and trans women etc.