New Police Scotland guidelines which allow transgender suspects to request officers of different sexes to frisk various parts of their body have been described as a “botched compromise”.
The advice — designed to accommodate people who have not completed a full surgical transition — would mean detainees could ask for a woman to search their top half and a man to search below the waist.
The human rights charity Sex Matters has warned that the “new rule is a gift to any suspect who may get satisfaction or enjoyment from being disruptive”.
Source:https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/transgender-police-scotland-sex-gender-searches-supreme-court-l6s29h8m6?