The Good And The Bad

And I am talking about the police…

Transgender police officers have a hard time when they join the force. Here in Connecticut a trans-woman police officer transitioned on the job and the department made her life hell.

Transgender Middletown Police Officer Terminated
By Shawn R. Beals
The Hartford Courant
June 27, 2014

Quaranta has claimed that the department created a hostile work environment after she started reporting for duty as a woman, and filed a complaint with the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities last year.

Quaranta vowed Friday to continue fighting her termination and what she has described as discrimination because of her gender identity.

"We're going to continue this fight until the end," she said. "In 2014 this is completely unacceptable. I will continue until I ensure that no other person in my situation will have to face this again."

Quaranta has been out of work since requesting administrative leave in August 2013 after filing a complaint about her treatment in the department. The city's human relations director conducted an internal review of the complaint and determined that there had been no harassment of Quaranta by city employees.

The city has tried every way they could to force her out of the department. I know of another officers in Connecticut who is also facing a hostile work environment her fellow officers also have given her a hard time.

Meanwhile on the west coast…

San Francisco Police academy graduates first transgender officer
By Noelle Walker
KTVU.com
Aug. 15, 2014

SAN FRANCISCO — The class of recruits the San Francisco Police Department graduated Friday night show the diversity of the City by the Bay in many ways, but one of them is a true pioneer for the department: Mikayla Connell is the first transgender person to enter the academy and graduate.

"I wanted a job that I was going to love." Connell said. "A job that was going to be different every day, was going to be interesting, and a job where I got challenge, not just physically, but intellectually and morally."

At 45-years old, Connell is the oldest graduate in her class. She first applied to be a police officer more than 20 years ago.

I wish and hope for the best for her. Maybe because it is San Francisco it will be different.