An Aboriginal teenager who claims she was unlawfully strip-searched in the presence of a male police officer is taking legal action to prevent footage of her exposed body from being aired in court.

The girl, 16, is fighting to uphold the cultural sanctity of women's business to the Supreme Court after a Children's Court magistrate refused her bid to exclude male police witnesses from watching the video and to have her criminal case heard before a female magistrate.

An Aboriginal girl who was strip searched is taking legal action to prevent footage of her body from being aired to men in court.

The mother of the girl, who was 15 when she was searched at Wagga Wagga police station in March 2019, and who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said her daughter, also a sexual assault survivor, would break down if the footage of the incident was played in front of men.

Aboriginal Legal Service field officer Emily Bruton, a Mutthi Mutthi and Wemba Wemba woman, said in Aboriginal culture, the showing of a woman's sensitive body parts was considered women's business and was part of lore practised for thousands of years.