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Evening Standard
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Aine Fox

British Transport Police confirms search policy change in light of gender ruling

A police force has become one of the first to confirm it has changed its strip search policy in the fallout from the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.

British Transport Police (BTP) said a day after the judgment that it had adopted a new “interim position” which will see trans people held in custody strip searched by an officer in line with their birth sex.

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