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Home Front: Culture Wars
Florida cops receive transgender sensitivity training to avoid
2015-09-08
[Right Scoop] Cops in St. Petersburg seemed rather perplexed and bewildered as they were given sensitivity training on how to avoid "misgendering" transgender persons.
Might as well enjoy the classroom time, and the lunch.
What I find odd is that they are being told that it doesn't matter what the name is on a person's license, or what their gender is -- they need to respect the wishes of what the person wants to be called, not whatever gender God made them. But the case they cite as the cuase for this training is when police mis-identified the gender of a dead transgender dude. But how were they supposed to know what gender he preferred? He was dead. He couldn't tell them. But I guess *I'M* the intolerant monster here in need of sensitivity training.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Has anyone done an empirical study or survey to find out iff regular Females will tolerate or fully accept Transgendered Males being in their bathrooms, showers, or other???

IMO Regular Males are more likely not to care, but Females, however, are a different animal.

'TIS A SIMPLE MAHA-RUSHIAN QUESTIONNE' BUT A BIGGIE.

Have I said "BIGGIE"???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-09-08 23:24  

#10  There is a mental illness in which the person feels their limb is not part of them and they want it surgically removed. Doctors in the US refuse to do so. If that limb is a penis however....
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-09-08 22:53  

#9  swksvolFF, one of the few Demos I had respect for used the phrase "Defining deviancy down".

Ever since the Stonewall riots it seems that mental illness is not considered an illness but something worthy of intrinsic respect and promotion.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-09-08 19:22  

#8  Sexual identity seems complicated. Did the training offer a scorecard?
Posted by: Percy Smiter of the Faeries3772   2015-09-08 18:37  

#7  I actually had this conversation with the wife the other night while I was heckling her show, which I hope is watched in the same manner people look as MC Escher pictures, so she fired back:

So why do you think he shouldn't be able to legally change his gender Mr. Mcsmartypants hater?

He was born male, that should not be changed.

But he felt like a woman his whole life, let him be who he wants to be.

No, coming from a biological perspective this is a human male.

But so many things happen during pregnancy, are you denying that he actually has a brain makeup of a female?

I'm not talking psychology, I'm talking biology. I'll give you that biology can affect psychology, but psychology cannot affect biology, at the least not to the point where chromosomes switch, not in humans.
Look, say a transgender dude is driving down the road and gets into a car wreck...(gets dirty look)...and the police do a DNA test, what will the result be: male or female.

Well..male.

Exactly, he can't will a change in that result anymore than a drunk can will the result of a breathalyzer. Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

I hate you sometimes.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-09-08 18:35  

#6  Cici n'est pas une femme.
Posted by: R. Magritte   2015-09-08 18:19  

#5  
Posted by: 3dc   2015-09-08 13:48  

#4  Please avoid saying insensitive things like, "Well, well, well, what do we have here?" during a search.
Posted by: KBK   2015-09-08 13:02  

#3  It was not Florida but Aurora, CO where the spooky 911 call was received. Aurora 911 call.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-09-08 10:45  

#2  "Misgendering?. How about if cops do what they were hired to do; maintain law and order? Put the social engineering aside. There are cops being murdered by thugs just because they are cops. We've got far more serious problems than misgendereing in this country. There was a report this morning from somewhere in Florida that police received a 911 call which basically said that cops were going to continue being targeted when they were found alone.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-09-08 07:23  

#1  "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." RAH
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-09-08 04:10  

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