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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   UK Police Force Embraces Gender-Neutral Officer Uniforms   
      
      
   A police department in the United Kingdom will soon roll out   
   gender-neutral uniforms for their cops.   
      
   Until now, Dyfed-Powys’s male police officers (in Wales) have worn ties,   
   while its female officers wore cravats. The department’s uniform policy also   
   addressed female officers’ nail polish and male officers’ hair length. All   
   of these are “   
   unnecessary differentiations,” the police department’s Gender Identity   
   Working Group concluded.   
      
   The new gender-neutral uniforms would remove “a barrier to Trans people   
   accessing employment with the Police” and prevent officers from having “to   
   ‘out’ themselves by justifying the request for an additional uniform,”   
   the working group said.   
      
   “As a Force, we have learnt that there may have been times when our   
   practices and procedures have impacted our Trans communities and their   
   engagement with us,” said the assistant chief constable, Liane James.   
   “This isn’t right. … I am pleased    
   to confirm that we have committed to all 18 recommendations made by the Gender   
   Identity Working Group.”   
      
   Those recommendations include the introduction of gender-neutral changing   
   rooms, bathrooms and even jail cells.   
       
    The working group also urged the police department to update its technology,   
   developing systems where officers, victims, witnesses, suspects and criminals   
   can be recorded with “non-binary genders and titles.”   
      
   Police officers should also receive training about transgender issues and the   
   use gender-neutral language, the working group said.   
      
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