Police have issued new guidance ruling transgender suspects can demand one half of their body is searched by a male officer and the other by a female colleague.
Gender-critical campaigners have accused Police Scotland of potentially putting female staff at risk with new rules drawn up after a recent Supreme Court verdict.
The latest guidance - issued with comments from Assistant Chief Constable Catriona Paton - has been condemned by activists including Kellie-Jay Keen, of the group Let Women Speak, and Sex Matters charity chief Fiona McAnena.
Judges determined in April that the word 'woman' meant a biological female and not gender within the terms of Britain's Equality Act.
Police Scotland - the crime force covering the whole country - carried out a review in response to April's judgment and has now published what it calls 'interim transgender search guidance'.
