Thursday, May 06, 2004
A police chief has failed in an appeal to the House of Lords against a court ruling that he acted unlawfully in refusing to recruit a male-to-female transsexual. I might be able to summon up some small vestige of sympathy for the phobic old fuckwit if the reason given for turning her application down was: He had argued that she would be unable to carry out body searches on either men or women because the regulations required the searcher to be of the same sex as the person being searched.
Is that the best you could do? Is this the real reason for police inefficency, they can't stop crooks bringing in kilos of crack because they spend their entire day doing body searches on people? Still, the Gender Recognition Bill should mean that if the Bill are worried that female prisoners that are searched would find out and complain, they won't have a leg to stand on in court.
Is that the best you could do? Is this the real reason for police inefficency, they can't stop crooks bringing in kilos of crack because they spend their entire day doing body searches on people? Still, the Gender Recognition Bill should mean that if the Bill are worried that female prisoners that are searched would find out and complain, they won't have a leg to stand on in court.
