
ALT Sex Matters CEO, Maya Forstater, pictured with the following quote: “We are extremely disappointed that the High Court has ruled against our challenge to guidance from the NPCC and BTP that allows trans-identifying men to request opposite-sex strip-searching from a female officer if she ‘consents’. The court accepted a series of extraordinary legal arguments from police lawyers, including an analogy suggesting that opposite-sex police searches are ‘consensual’ in a similar way to private citizens consenting to sadomasochistic acts. If Parliament had wanted to allow people in custody to request to be strip-searched by an officer of the opposite sex, it would have written this into the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. We will be seeking permission to appeal this judgment, which we believe is wrong in law.”































