The San Diego Police Department are enforcing a new set of rules on interactions with individuals who identify as “transgender” and “nonbinary,” coercing their officers into using the preferred pronouns of such individuals, as well as accommodating body searches and transportation to the needs associated with their “gender identity.”
The department published an updated set of guidelines on June 1 to coincide with the beginning of the so-called “Gay Pride” month, and Police Chief David Nisleit said that the rules have been developed in conjunction “with our LGBTQ community” in San Diego.
Based on a supposed commitment to “working with the diverse communities it serves,” the police proceeded to implement measures that “create mutual understanding, prevent conflict, and ensure the appropriate interaction with transgender and gender non-binary individuals.”
To this end, officers are now obliged to address transgender and non-binary-identifying individuals by their preferred pronouns, in spite of biological realities. Such individuals, once arrested, are to be assigned a male or female police officer for the purposes of transport and body searches according to the arrestee’s will; and officers must confirm with the arrestee the sex-allocated prison facility to which they would like to be taken.
Men who think that they are women are even to be treated like biological women regarding transport security, following standard bodycam recording procedures in transporting women and notifying a dispatcher of the beginning and ending mileage of the police vehicle used for the transfer.
In addition, the new guidelines instruct officers to avoid “outdated terms” like “transvestite” and “transsexual,” instead insisting that the “correct term to be used is ‘Transgender.’” Officers must also be careful not to base their assessment of a person’s sex by appearance. Rather, officers must stay alert for “visual or verbal cues” that an individual might identify as transgender.
If an officer is simply told by the arrestee that they identify as either transgender or non-binary, the officer is ordered that he must not only “accept their expressed gender identity,” but that he “shall not question it.”
Even government issue identification, such as a driver’s license from the DMV, is no longer considered as “proof of an individual’s gender identity” as, according to the guidelines “it can often reflect the gender from which the individual is transitioning (as part of the transition process) and not the biological gender or gender identity the individual possesses.”
In case an officer becomes confused or loses track of what terms can and cannot be used, or even what the terms designate, the procedural document includes a “definitions” section to point them towards currently-accepted standards of speech. For example, the SDPD defines “gender binary” as follows:
[The] classification of sex and gender into two distinct, opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine. This is the idea that a person who is male is masculine and a person who is female is feminine.
Otherwise known as male and female.
Contrary to numerous assertions made throughout the document suggesting a blanket acceptance of a female-identifying-males as female, and vice versa, the SDPD define gender identity in less concrete terms. The department categorize one’s gender identity as a mere “sense of being a man, a woman, both, or neither,” without confirming that sense to be in accord with reality.
With the terms having been laid out, official documentation of arrests and other reports must now take care to input names and pronouns according to the “transgender” individual’s stated name and sex, meaning that the officer cannot “refer to the person’s legal gender or legal name in the narrative of the report if the individual requests a preferred name and gender be used.” The “transgender” person must also be allowed to use whichever bathroom fits their gender identity on police property, regardless of whether that identity matches their biological sex.
Officer Christine Garcia, a biological man who identifies as a woman, took over as the San Diego police’s “LGBTQ Liaison” last year and was responsible for drafting the new procedure.
“Since I am transgender myself, I took it upon myself to draw this up,” he said of the updated policy, adding that he does not believe there will be any significant pushback from within the force, according to a report in the LA Times.
Another notable change in policy is in handling hormonal “medicines” from transgender-identifying arrestees. “Often transgender individuals take medications as part of their transition,” the police department recognizes, before adding that “[m]issing doses or coming off those medications can be life threatening to the individual.”
Accordingly, “The officer should make every reasonable attempt to recover medications for the individual and take those medications to the jail facility with their personal property. If the officer cannot retrieve the medications, a list of current medications should be gathered and given to the nurse at the jail facility.
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, himself an open homosexual, welcomed the changes in policing gender-confused individuals, touting the move as “a much-needed and welcome change that is symbolic of the respect we should have for one another and how we create a San Diego that is truly for all of us….”
The above comes from a June 4 story on the site of LifeSiteNews.
The article frequently refers to police officers as “he”. I did not know that there are only male police officers on the City of San Diego Police force.
Will cops arrest other cops who refuse to call biological men women? Maybe the police need to be defunded after all.
Unless the situation presents a clear danger to the police or the general public, I believe the police should respect the wishes of the arrestee.
In another words Mike M believes that a lie as obvious as this should be perpetuated
mikem: “I believe the police should respect the wishes . . .”
Do you also believe in silly things like ‘transvaxxites’? You think someone should be treated as vaccinated just because he self-identifies that way?
What about vaccination as being on a spectrum? Do you believe vaccination is also non-binary?
Once you accept that biology doesn’t matter, anything stupid goes.
Yeah, Mike believes it’s okay to confirm people in their sins and delusions.
Mr. Garcia “does not believe there will be any significant pushback from within the force”?
Dear LEOs,
Get legal representation. There is more hope for your cause against this injustice than the sick homosexual lobby would like you to believe.
If a judge can be found to return AR-15s to the California Republic, which has just happened, then certainly one can be found who will acknowledge the outright stupidity and evil of telling LEOs they must speak like irrational idiots.
The judges are there, but they need courageous men to bring their cases forward. Do it! Fight!
Putting a biological man who identifies as a woman in charge of a commission, can’t be surprised at what you get. Another reason not to support the man formerly known as Bruce Jenner in his political ambitions. He, like the trans commissioner, will not put away his fake identity and will actually use his psychosis to further his trans agenda.
I agree. Police work is far too serious for this outrageous “baloney!” Officer “Christine” Garcia and “Caitlin” Jenner and their “trans” pals, have fake identities, play sick “dress up” games, and are victims of mental illness. Deluded, mentally sick people, all should realistically be treated as such– for the good of the patient, and the good of the public. No “special privileges” for the mentally sick to “play sick games”– especially, in very serious police work! Police need to concentrate on their very serious, very dangerous jobs, to combat crime, and keep our communities safe.
Waiting for the earth destroying asteroid to hit.
Hey, this gives me an idea… if Pope Francis cancels the TLM, we can still celebrate it but say that we identify as a Novus Ordo Mass.
He is not going to cancel the TLM.
Your confidence is strange given his hostility to it.
I just shake my head in disbelief.
Police Officer to detained individual: How would you like to be addressed?
He-She-It: Why thank you officer, please address me as “Madam”.
Hmmm. Oh Wait. I’m Madam up to Noon, now it is past, so please call me “Sir”
On the other hand, maybe SirMad would be better.
Then again, perhaps because I feel neuter today, call me “It-They”.
On the other hand, it’s Tuesday, so perhaps the best is “TrannieMay”.
Then again….
Who, specifically, says Pope Francis is going to cancel or otherwise limit TLM??
There are credible reports from Italian bishops that a document rescinding or curtailing the TLM is in its third draft. Not hard to find articles about it. I don’t know if this site allows posting links, so just search for “Pope Francis revoke Summorum Pontificum” and you’ll get what you need.
That is not what any reliable website says. They say that there are rumors in Rome that the Pope is going to make some changes to Summorum Pontificum and all else is speculation. Even the Bishops who say that he talked to them about making changes said he did not say what the changes would be.
This is what the Internet does. It gets people all riled up before anything happens. Stop spreading rumors on the Internet. And everyone else, stop believing rumors on the Internet.
Oh yeah, how about this:
https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/5416-pope-s-plan-to-restrict-traditional-latin-mass-backed-by-two-curial-cardinals
A lot of details there to be concerned about. Not rumors. Confirmed reports.
This is all so simple. All cops need to do is yell, “hey, YOU, put your hands up!”
Oh wait, this won’t cover those with mutliple personalities.
Never mind….
Just use the suspect’s last name over and over in place of a pronoun…or “the suspect”….No problem using a suspects desired feminine first name even if it is a man…that’s what the guy wants to be called…..the problem is taking a guy to a woman’s jail…just more violence against women that has been steeply escalating for the last 5-10 years. When will all of these women realize they’ve been taken advantage of and abused for the last 50 years? From the NCAA women’s athletics to being caricatured and ridiculed by drag queen men to having desirable feminine traits be redefined by men who say they’re women….not to mention the fact that the birth control pill for men is just taken by women who deal with the 10% failure rate and life threatening blood clots…gotta say…don’t have much sympathy for the Gloria Steinem types…they sold the farm a long time ago….. there has been a war on women for a long time now and the progressive men, both gay and straight, are doubling down…They still seem to find women suffering from Stockholm Syndrome to carry water for them…the feminists got one thing right…Men really are in charge…