In an article of 3 June reporting on transsexual police officers, we stated that transsexual officers were exempt from body searches and officers could take a year's paid leave for gender reassignment. In fact, transsexual officers, are able to perform the full range of duties performed by any other police officer and there are currently no police forces where officers can take a year's paid leave for gender re-assignment.
It seems there were further problems with Nick Dorman's article, which were outlined at the time by Jane Fae. For example, Dorman wrote:
Suspects can only be searched by officers of the same sex and transsexuals cannot change theirs on birth certificates.
The claim about birth certificates is not accurate, and hasn't been since the Gender Recognition Act came into effect in 2005.
Jane also reveals some of how the paper responded to the complaint.
At time of writing, the original article remains uncorrected on the People's website.
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