Not only this — and this is a big deal — but how on earth will the police ensure that male officers won’t be allowed to search cis women who look a bit butch and can’t prove they’re women?
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Henry Mance
if I understand correctly, the campaigners wanted (in their words) to stop trans women officers with a gender recognition certificate searching women.
and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women.
not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women.
not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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It is an attempt to move from self-ID to direct state policing of trans bodies.
Trans women cops being told they have to search cis men is another impending disaster.
I do agree that it's ready stupid.
Evidently massive potential for abuse. Do they not know the met's history?
Great win for women's protection everyone
Were you concerned about that?
We are heading for insane world where everything hinges on “biological sex” but cis people will have no way of proving it.
And what’s the next step?
At that point, the GRA literally is meaningless for any purpose.
Bottom surgery is a thing, so how much you wanna bet they won't even take that as "proof"
They are too scared of being seen to be pathetic...by being afraid of (by their logic) a female using a man's bathroom. A female taking mens rights away.
So they will ignore/ not enforce trans men in men's bathrooms.
The irony? The feminist movement fought for *years* to make public loos available to women because they were so central to freeing women from the home, and now some are trying to drive trans people into hiding by making it impossible to tend their biological needs in public spaces.
Two “unisex” bathrooms.
Going to get sick of explaining that one...
Policing women, by women. Fml.
All of this is by design.
They're going after all of us
They're willing to be blatant hypocrites, all they care about is our exclusion.
(and I suspect similar reasoning will be used to ban trans women from both spaces, though that remains to be seen
The venom people spit is frightening, and I’m AFAB. Society should discourage this behaviour, not enable it.
stop being a TERF bigot.
Which cis people can't get.
Everything else can be amended either using a doctors note, or a GRC.
Though probably they will try to change that soon.
As a teenager I was often mistaken for a boy.
In 1999 Mr P and I were in Greenwich Village NY and the trans ladies all thought I was a trans too (albeit with a smaller chest than them).
At what stage does the male police officer/customs official ask my biological gender?
this is the world JK Rowling fought so hard for, making all women less safe, making all women more vulnerable to abuses of systemic power. just because she hated us trannies so much.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/19/baby-girl-registered-wrong-sex-mansfield-registration-office
Women judged by a police officer's idea of what is (stereotypical?) femininity; what every feminist has been fighting for.... NOT
This is just more ignorant nonsense to objectify us all.
This isn't a win for women. It's a win for transphobic men who think they shouldn't face consequences for misogyny.
"Oh, I left my birth certificate at home and I didn't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable."
I wouldn't put it past Sir Child Starver to push through more transphobia. Not like the Tories will oppose it.
Essentially they've destroyed legal gender. The next step will be ID cards or something
1. Build up a propaganda machine.
2. Whip up fear and hatred against a vulnerable minority.
3. Eradicate said minority.
4. Ratchet up segregation.
5. Ratchet up the oppression and control of *all* women.
https://bsky.app/profile/emuhp.bsky.social/post/3lmzejmk4hk2i
Because she’s clearly not a biological woman.