Police Scotland’s trans strip-search policy backed by High Court

An English High Court ruling has backed the legal principle behind Police Scotland’s policy allowing transgender detainees to request a strip search by an officer of their lived gender. Police Scotland’s usual policy is for strip searches to be conducted according to the detainee’s biological sex. However, the force in

Police Scotland’s controversial rules allowing transgender detainees to request a strip search by an officer of the opposite biological sex have won a major legal boost from an English High Court judge