Hello 911

Do you dread call for help because you worry about how they will or if treat you.

New study suggests that nearly 60% of transgender people in the U.S. have reported mistreatment by police in the last year
New York Daily News
By Muri Assunção
May 7, 2019

Police treatment of the transgender population in the U.S. is in dire need of reform, according to new report.

Findings from a survey released by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) based on the U.S. Transgender Surveyrevealed some sobering statistics that are, unfortunately, an all-too-common reality for over half of trans individuals living in this country: 58% of transgender individuals have experienced harassment, abuse or other mistreatment by law enforcement agents last year.

“On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, transgender people of color remain targets of harassment, abuse, and violence. If we ever hope to end this crisis, police departments must evolve to meet the needs of the communities they have sworn to serve. The solutions we offer can lead these communities and our nation’s law enforcement to a more equitable future, but we must get there together,” NCTE’s executive director Mara Keisling said in a press release.

The NCTE report…
Overall, police departments across the U.S. are failing to protect and serve transgender people. Of the largest 25 police departments:

• Only nine of the 25 departments include gender identity and/or expression language in their non-discrimination policy, which is the best way to clarify that transgender people are protected.
• Only one department fully addressed how gender-specific policies applied to people with non-binary (not exclusively male or female) gender identities and/or gender markers.
• Most department policies (15 out of 25), including those that specifically address transgender interactions, lack any policies regarding correct use of names and pronouns.
• Six departments required that gender be documented based on identification documents, 18 departments did not provide clear instructions on documenting a person's gender, and one provided guidance regarding gender-neutral markers.
• A majority of departments (16 of 25) fail to provide search procedures for transgender individuals and/or require members to perform searches based on sex.
• Out of the sixteen departments with holding facilities, 10 failed to provide specific guidance on housing placement for transgender individuals (such as being placed with other women, men, or separately).
• Only two department’s policy explicitly allows for transgender people to retain all appearance-related items (e.g. prosthetics, bras, clothes, undergarments, wigs, chest binders, or cosmetic items).
• No department explicitly requires multiple hours of regular training on transgender policies for all members across rank.
• Only two departments clearly prohibit officers from restricting transgender individuals’ access to restrooms in public places or department facilities.
• Twenty-three departments do not have policies prohibiting officer misconduct towards members of the public.
• No department explicitly prohibits the use of condoms as evidence in prostitution-related offenses.

Here in Connecticut I had to call 911 and they officers was very friendly and I had no problem him also I have been in a couple of accidents and the responding officers were accepting. One of the accidents was before I transitioned and was presenting as Diana, the Maine state police officer asked what name I would like to be address as and he referred to me as Diana but the paperwork reflected my legal name.

---

In Chicago the newspaper had this to say about the report.

Chicago Police Department failing transgender community: report
Chicago Sun Times
By Fran Spielman
May 7, 2019

Less than two weeks before Chicago inaugurates its first openly gay mayor, the Chicago Police Department was cited Tuesday as one of 25 big-city police departments that fails to adequately protect the rights of transgender people.

This despite a 2015 general order setting guidelines for how officers are to treat transgender arrestees.

The report by the National Center for Transgender Equality was released ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City’s Greenwich Village. It examined 25 of the nation’s largest police departments and found all fell short at taking “proactive measures to prevent the mistreatment and misidentification of transgender people during arrests, witness interviews, search and seizure and housing of transgender people.”
[…]
The Chicago Police Department responded to the report by reiterating its commitment to treat “every resident of Chicago with respect and dignity.”

“Chicago’s strength is in its diversity, and in order to continue to improve community relations through reform, transparency and accountability, we are reviewing policies and procedures to best provide quality services to diverse communities,” the statement said.

“To better prepare our officers for serving LGBTQ+ communities, we are revising policies and protocols for arrests, pat downs, searches, transportation and detention, as is required by the federal consent decree.”

The statement noted that CPD worked with the Center on Halsted to develop an “online training module on the transgender community, which was completed by all CPD members” last year.
[…]
For example, officers were instructed to “use pronouns as requested by the individual: she, her, hers for an individual who self-identifies as a female and he, him, his for someone who self-identifies as a male.”

“If members are uncertain by which gender the individual should be addressed, members will respectfully ask the individual for clarification”[and], when requested, address that person “by a name based on their gender identity, rather than that which is on their government ID,” the general order states.

The order also prohibits Chicago Police officers from: disclosing an individual’s gender identity; using derogatory language; stopping, detaining, frisking or searching any person, “in whole or in part for the purpose of determining that person’s gender or in order to call attention to the person’s gender expression”; or using gender identification as “reasonable suspicion or prima facia evidence that the individual “is or has engaged in a crime, including prostitution.”

There is an obscure law here in Connecticut they prevents the police from disclosing what a person is wearing at the time of a police stop. The law stems from what a school official was crossdressed and fired for a police stop where they reported what he was wearing.