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[–]materialrealityplz 35 insightful - 2 fun35 insightful - 1 fun36 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I've been listening to a few interviews with Harry Miller - a man in the UK who had the police come to his workplace about transphobic tweets (and eventually won a court case against them) - and he has mentioned that trans people can choose to have a police person of a gender they choose, to check them (say if they had drugs on them). Which if it's a man requesting a woman and she has to check his nether region is akin to sexual assault.

But this lady, a rape survivor, is transphobic for wanting a female medic? Fucking hypocrisy.

[–]Doobeedoo661 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Female cops generally wouldn’t blink at the thought of either a frisk or strip search regarding a transgendered woman, they’re trained accordingly. Transwomen are over represented when it comes to crime among the LGBT, at least in Victoria, so it’s not uncommon for a female officer to accommodate a transwoman should the need arise.