The British Transport Police (BTP) is facing legal action over new guidance allowing transgender officers to strip-search women.
Campaigners from gender-critical group Sex Matters have sent a pre-action letter to the BTP challenging their new policy, which is the first step towards taking them to court for a judicial review of the guidelines.
Referring to the BTP’s new rules, Maya Forstater, the chief executive of gender-critical campaign group Sex Matters called the guidance “state-sponsored sex discrimination and sexual abuse.”
Forstater added that too many officers have been found guilty of sexual offences, and that men are responsible for 98 per cent of sex crimes.
“Abuse of position for sexual purposes is the largest area of corruption that the Independent Office of Police Complaints deals with,” she said.