For those following the news about new police guidance allowing male-to-female transgender officers with GRCs to intimately search women, including their bodily orifices, I've written about whether this policy is lawful:
https://knowingius.org/p/strip-searching-gender-identity-and
https://knowingius.org/p/strip-searching-gender-identity-and
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There is absolutely no reason why this policy is necessary. It can only cause distress to the often extremely vulnerable women searched, and will inevitably result in complaints, legal action and political/media comment.