Police Scotland get it arse over tit

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Is it possible for the top half of one’s body to have a different sex than the bottom half? Police Scotland appear to believe so and have decided to allow detainees to request male and female officers to search different parts of the detainee’s body. This is not a joke. At least I don’t think it is. The Times has reported it straight up with receipts and the documentation is pretty unambiguous.

New protocols from Police Scotland issued this week introduce what is called a “separate area search”. “We have a duty to respect the dignity and privacy of transgender persons,” the document explains. “[This] means that one half of the body will be searched by one biological sex officer and the other half of their body will be searched by a different biological sex officer.” The Scottish police do not appear to think they have a duty to respect common sense.

Or the law. This procedural abomination is supposed to be their response to April’s ruling from the Supreme Court that sex means biological sex in the Equality Act. But instead of just recognising that sex is binary, the police seem determined to cling on to the metaphysical belief that people can be gender fluid. Or at least that different parts of their bodies can be.

The policy doesn’t even make sense on its own terms. If trans women are women, as the police seem determined to assert, then why divide the body into two distinct spheres in the first place? Either the detainee is a woman or is a man. If the former, then they should be inspected, if a clothes-off search is necessary, by a woman. If the latter, then a quick frisking by a male police officer should suffice. Having a woman constable inspecting the upper half of the body, and a male the bottom, would surely involve even more “distress” to the trans woman – the condition that the protocol is supposed to avoid.

However, perhaps the polis, sorry “Poileas” as they are now styled, are one step ahead of the gender game. You see, they don’t actually state which gender of police person should inspect which half of the body. Perhaps they are cleverly respecting the full-fat doctrine of transgender Self-ID by getting the woman PC to inspect the trans woman’s genitals. These may or may not include a penis, but that should not make any difference if trans women are women.

If the policewoman so instructed doesn’t think this is in order, tough titty. Though perhaps that dismissal should apply north of the waistline, where the biologically male PC plod would be doing the essential inspection. The detainee may or may not have breasts. Confused? They will be.

Perhaps Police Scotland should just get trans women to do the inspection of trans women. Except that they would not then be in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling, which defines sex as meaning biological sex. But come to think of it, that wouldn’t matter. All Police Scotland need do is have men strip-searched by men and women strip-searched by women. They can then just swap around pronouns as appropriate. Job done.

Only this is Police Scotland we are talking about, in whose eyes asserting human biology can be a Non-Crime Hate Incident. They used to allow offenders to change sex after arrest. This only came to light in January 2023 when a double rapist, Isla Bryson, was placed on remand in Cornton Vale women’s prison. The police, and the Scottish Prison Service, had decided as long ago as 2016 that offenders should be treated as their “social gender” rather than their biological sex.

In common with most of the public sector in Scotland, which has yet to respond to April’s Supreme Court ruling, the police seem intensely reluctant to abandon the gospel according to Stonewall. They still see it as their job to recognise detainees as having the right to self-identify. At least, for one part of the body.

But this physiological split decision obviously cannot be sustained. Catriona Paton, Assistant Chief Constable, says, “This is a complex and important area of policing.” No, it isn’t. Regarding different parts of the body as possessing different genders is quite literally, if you will excuse the term, bollocks.

Perhaps this was all some out of time April Fool. But sadly, the entire public sector in Scotland is so hopelessly confused about the las, and addled by transgender ideology, that this sounds only too plausible. Just make sure, when approached by police, that you remember which way is up.