The Kafkaesque approach

The law on searching is supposed to protect people from being searched by members of the opposite sex. But British Transport Police is taking the Kafkaesque approach of saying that if a male person with a government-issued piece of paper searches a woman, that search is “being done by a female”.

“We are bringing this case to ensure that no woman in the UK has to suffer this degrading treatment, and to protect female officers from being forced to search male suspects who decide to declare themselves ‘women’.”