“To find the middle ground, police forces need to adhere to the Public Sector Equality Duty and make proper use of institutional safeguards such as Equality Impact Assessments. In practice, this will involve consulting on policies much more widely, that is, beyond LGBT representatives, to include representatives from all affected groups. Put another way, managers need to recognise that both sex and gender identity may be relevant to people’s lives, and to factor both into policy-making decisions. In this way, it should be possible to balance fairly the interests of everyone, in the least discriminatory way possible.”