gardless of whatever £5 official piece of paper he holds.
“Strip-searching by its very nature can be degrading and embarrassing, for the woman being searched, and for the policewoman doing the searching.
“When the state allows men to strip women and touch them, then that in my view is state-sanctioned sexual assault. It beggars belief that police leaders view this as a carrot to dangle to get more trans-identified men into the service.”
[A grammatical aside: that singular verb in the first sentence – "The British Transport Police (BTP) is facing legal action" – caught my attention. I'd have written "are facing legal action". I struggle a bit with this. It depends, I suppose, on context. So you'd say "the BBC is an organisation at the heart of British life", but "the BBC are disputing this version of events". Possibly. Depending on whether the emphasis is on the institution itself or on the people within the institution. Maybe. I don't know.]
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