Male police officers identifying as women

[Leafstamp]

'The UK police have recruited several men who 'identify' as women to work as officers or advisers in the last three or four years. Here's a [Twitter] thread on how that's working out so far':

twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1597141601180356609

archive.ph/EKCqX

With credit to rip4nutmeg.

Thanks for this. I've retweeted. I love her work.

Yes, that's working out... not well. Who would have thought?!

Wow! That's quite a list!

Criminal.

Jesus wept

What is it with the manic smiles on these police officers?

Smiles of narcissism?

Where is Felix to explain this away?

Sorry if I am being dense, but does this mean that if a biological male police officer identifies as a female, he would be able to do strip searches on female suspects?

Boiledbeetle · Today 23:14

What is it with the manic smiles on these police officers?

The known phenomenon of Duper's Delight, perhaps?

Thanks for your post, OP - it exposes very troubling facts about the people who are recruited to police forces nowadays, and the lack of judgement by the powers that be.

+1

And it has to be said - males figure heavily, in all the recruiting, the recruited, and the excused and accepted men, despite red flags. And subsequently trying to excuse men's behaviour as "banter".

Rape and murder. Is rape and murder just "banter" too?

The world has officially gone crazy.

What a surprise.
Their sex is obvious.

What is it with the manic smiles on these police officers?
They can't believe their luck, they are getting away with it, at work too! Their wildest dreams have come true.
Why can't other police officers see how creepy they are?

The vetting failures are even worse than I realised - which is saying something! The misogyny knows no bounds.

Male police officers who claim that they identify as women, are just men doing womanface. It's no different from doing blackface. Why do current police services applaud misogyny and men doing womanface? Why aren't the misogynists and racists getting sacked?

My understanding is that yes it does mean that, although I think some forces (with decent PCCs) have said that they will not allow that to happen.

Article from earlier in the year here www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10703327/Women-strip-searched-trans-officers-born-male-say-police.html

For the very strong stomached (involves a 15 year old girl stripped searched in front of male officers) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61523291.amp

@Leafstamp Thank you for the clarification. I don't know what to say to this, other than what the actual fuck? This is an appalling breach of trust and legalised sexual assault, is there no one protecting women anymore? Im just lost for words. Sorry that I appear to be late to the party.

Please don’t apologise @Probablymagrat, a lot of us have had similar wtaf moments and felt bad about not realising things sooner.

The most important thing now is that we speak to people IRL, write to MPs, get involved with campaigns etc.

It’s not a huge surprise to see the gravitation towards the police though. Huge scope to exert power over others. Not to mention access to data.

Was having this conversation today, with my Dad of all people, he was saying how much of a problem the police have with men on power trips and with misogyny.

While reading the BBC article linked upthread, I noticed this not unconnected piece

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63798242

Interestingly, LGBTQIA also made Merriam Webster's list - could these words be connected in any way?