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BBC Radio 4 news today described the Supreme Court decision as "trans people cannot use single-sex spaces". No mention of the wider points of the judgement.

They went on to report that the British Transport Police have announced that transwomen will be searched by men. Why would a search happen in a single-sex space ? Surely it needs to happen in a private space which has no need to be gendered ?

*My words aren't quite right, they didn't mean that they cannot use spaces reserved for their birth sex.

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As to prisons (which I read wont be much affected by this ruling, because of the way they have implemented existing policies) I would have thought that the starting point was the prisoner's expressed (or perhaps physical) gender *at the time of the offence*. Thus a rapist who then claims to be trans has to lump it in a male prison, but a transwoman who had SRS 30 years ago goes to a women's prison if she is convicted of opposing the new protest laws.
I'm open to consider subtleties I have missed.

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I am becoming convinced that Director of Public Prosecutions is not good experience for a future Prime Minister.

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