Mick Hartley

Joan Smith at UnHerd on the case being brought against the British Transport Police over their policy of allowing men with a GRC to strip search women (previously):

The question that arises is who this policy is meant to benefit, since it’s clearly not women. Many who end up in police stations will have experienced domestic or sexual violence, and the prospect of being strip-searched by a biological man will be traumatic — it may well feel like sexual assault.

The awful truth is that it’s yet another exercise in affirming “gender identity”, in which the welfare of women comes a poor second to the demands of entitled men. Adult males rarely “pass” as female and require constant affirmations from people who know perfectly well that they’re men, including work colleagues. Employers give them what they want because they’re afraid of being called out as “transphobic” or sued by an employee with a GRC.

From the police to the NHS, publicly-funded organisations have forgotten the people they are supposed to serve. “We are bringing this case to ensure that no woman in the UK has to suffer this degrading treatment,” says Forstater. In the meantime, no woman can feel safe in the hands of the very force that’s supposed to protect us on the country’s transport system.