Defeating the purpose
You have got to be kidding.
The Daily Mail (because the Guardian and the BBC are looking fixedly in the opposite direction):
Police forces are allowing trans officers to carry multiple warrant cards depending on the gender they choose on a given day.
At least 11 forces in England and Wales use the policy, blasted as dangerous by women’s groups.
Trans officers can receive two warrant cards, or more if they are ‘gender fluid’.
Police officers use warrant cards to identify themselves and they must be shown before using powers including stop and search.
Which is, surely, so that people being stopped and searched can be assured it’s a cop interfering with them and not, say, some random guy who has his own reasons for wanting to “search” a woman. So what’s the point of it if it explicitly allows male cops to pretend to be women and show a warrant card to back it up?
Two thirds of forces also allow biological male trans officers and civilian staff to use women’s showers, toilets and changing rooms, according to a Freedom of Information request by the Daily Mail.
MPs and campaigners last night said the policies threaten women’s safety and could breach the rights of police staff, suspects and victims.
“Could” very very easily if you ask me.
Essex’s policy states that during early transition ‘there may be a need… to have two warrant cards, so that any off-duty incidents whilst living in acquired gender, do not result in the staff member having to ‘out’ themselves when proving identity’.
Oh shut up. Men pretending to be women should have to out themselves, especially if they’re cops.
They don’t actually care if they are “outed.” Otherwise there wouldn’t be so many days/weeks/months of trans visibility/pride/celebration. Those special events require everyone to know explicitly that you are transgender, and NOT simply the claimed sex. Quite a few don’t even pretend to pass, or don’t pass. You don’t have to “out” yourself. It’s as plain as day for everyone to see.
Police regulations need to be drafted so as to admit no fraudsters into the ranks, and at any level. Simple as that, if you ask me.
Pick a card, any card. Three-card monte is a con which I’m pretty sure is a crime in most jurisdictions. You would think the police would know that.
The idea that an accurate warrant card would “out” a trans officer (and indeed any accurate paperwork, name etc) is based on the dubious and contested idea that the individual passed perfectly except for that non-affirming paperwork. The lie is often given to this idea immediately, such as The Guardian piece on Queensland’s change to allow falsified birth certificates, with its picture of “Emily”, now apparently freed from the tyranny of being “outed” by official documents, but in reality, now doomed to a lifetime of “huh?” responses from everyone who sees his newly altered birth certificate.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/01/decades-long-wait-for-trans-birth-certificate-reforms-nearly-over-for-queenslands-emily-wells
More and more proof that gender identity is better termed personality, mood, or even whim.
I’m sure Sarah was reassured when Wayne showed her his card.