They don’t know
I caught a glimpse of this the other day but didn’t follow it up; I should have. Vancouver police claim they “don’t know” what sex a guy accused of rape is.
The Metro Vancouver Transit Police say they “don’t know” if the primary suspect in a skytrain sexual assault is male or female despite having recovered semen during the investigation.
On February 8, the Transit Police issued a press release pleading for help to identify the suspect. While photos and videos showed what appeared to be a male with long hair, some basic information on the suspect was curiously omitted from the release. No pronouns were used, and no information on the suspect’s sex was included.
In a recorded phone call with journalist Amy Hamm, Constable Amanda Steed said the information had been intentionally left out because the Transit Police were unsure of how to refer to the suspect.
They put out a press release asking for help in identifying the suspect and they omitted crucial information about the suspect. Are we stupid enough yet?
“We’ve left it out for a reason; it’s because we don’t know. The video evidence shows someone who… would appear female, who is female presenting, but the physical evidence is that of a genetic male,” Steed said. She later confirmed in an email to Reduxx that the physical evidence is in fact the suspect’s semen.
Despite claiming that the Transit Police “didn’t know” what the sex of the suspect was, Steed admitted that they “believe” he has a penis.
You are the police. Stop fucking around. The guy reportedly sexually assaulted a woman; it doesn’t matter how he “presents” – i.e. that he has long hair. You know perfectly well what sex he is and by pretending you don’t and so omitting that fact from your request for assistance in finding him, you’re refusing to do your job and treating his victim like garbage. Stop doing that!
According to their website, The Metro Vancouver Transit Police is “the only dedicated police service in Canada focused on reducing crime and disorderly behavior in and around the public transportation system.” They also describe one of their four operational priorities as “reducing sexual offences.” In 2018, the police force launched an “Anti Sex Offence Campaign,” which consisted of a poster campaign and a number for victims or witnesses to text or call the transit police.
But if the suspect is a trans laydee don’t bother, Metro Vancouver Transit Police aren’t interested.
H/t NightCrow
They would sooner be sensitive to a rapist trans woman than catch him. Vancouver Transit police value twitter activists above rape victims.
The city needs to get up in arms over this fucking stupidity.
“You are the police. Stop fucking around. The guy reportedly sexually assaulted a woman; it doesn’t matter how he “presents” – i.e. that he has long hair. You know perfectly well what sex he is and by pretending you don’t and so omitting that fact from your request for assistance in finding him, you’re refusing to do your job and treating his victim like garbage. Stop doing that!”
Good job.
Yes, they’re trying to have it both ways; they know it’s important to know that the male suspect is dressing like a woman, but they don’t want to come out and say that it’s a he that’s crossdressing because that would somehow reflect badly on the “community”, and the transit police don’t want to poke that bear, so they play dumb and pretend to forget which sex has a penis and produces semen. They’ve decided that not upsetting the T “community,” its allies, and useful idiots takes precedence over their actual duty.
What’s particularly alarming is they did this pre-emptively, on their own, without it being a response to “community” outrage over potentially “misgendering” the suspect. They’ve internalized the ideology: the police are policing themselves. Maybe they think that Stonewall will start taking their Diversity Champions program international. This is a great way to demonstrate their obedience and submission to trans domination. Extra points for self-censorship! I’m sure receiving one of their awards is worth the sudden, apparent loss of dozens of IQ points.
Yeah, but they don’t want to show up for work some morning to find that someone has nailed a dead rat on the train doors.
Well, I don’t know why they didn’t simply lean on the newspeak of ungendered terms that describe the assailant: testicle bearer, semen producer, bepenised individual etc, and describe how the testicle bearer was dressed?