XPost: 24hoursupport.helpdesk, alt.politics.scorched-earth, uk.politics.misc
XPost: uk.legal, alt.politics.uk
From: abelard4@abelard.org
On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 12:49:13 -0400, burfordTjustice
wrote:
>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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