Transexual Copper Sues Essex Police!

[Xamonas Chegwé]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24575180

A police officer, that underwent a sex change while working for the police is suing over the treatment she received.

Coppers not being sympathetic towards the different? Who would have thunk it?

[Audley Strange]

Yeah they could spend millions and millions of pounds educating our police force to be a bit more sensitive to one human being so that one human being can be a police officer or they can get rid of shim and pay a couple of grand... hmmmm tough choice for a trivial problem.

[JimC]

I can see it now!

The Ploddy Horror Show!

[tattuchu]

Don't want your feelings hurt? Don't get your dick cut off and turn yourself into a freak of nature.

[Tyrannical]

I don't even understand why these operations are allowed. These people have serious mental issues.
If some loony thought he was Napoleon, they'd lock him up, not cut a foot of their height and let him live his fantasy.

[MrJonno]

I don't even understand why these operations are allowed. These people have serious mental issues.
If some loony thought he was Napoleon, they'd lock him up, not cut a foot of their height and let him live his fantasy.

It is initially treated as a mental health issue (ie you see a shrink first), but if it can't be resolved via that manner after a length of time and causes enough distress the surgeons can get involved. If you have serious burns on your face but can still eat/breath etc is this a mental issue for wanting surgery (I think it is but surgery is still justified with public funds)

As for amputations with Body dysmorphic disorder it certainly hasn't been ruled out

[rainbow]

I don't even understand why these operations are allowed. These people have serious mental issues.

Racists have serious mental issues. Pity there is no surgery that can cure them of that.

[Tyrannical]

Iran leads the world in sex change operations, they use it to cure homosexuals. Thought I would add that fun fact.

[Svartalf]

Which is funny given the number of transexuals who end up homosexual into the arrival gender... There's something I don't grasp in there, but so it is.

[Tyrannical]

Lesbian becomes a man, marries a gay that became a woman. I don't know what to say.

[Svartalf]

Troubled guy becomes woman and that woman only dates other women is more typical of the sightings and reports I've had.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Troubled guy becomes woman and that woman only dates other women is more typical of the sightings and reports I've had.

Yep. Because that person wasn't gay as a man, just felt trapped in the wrong body. The surgery and hormones are not likely to change ones choice of sexual partner or who one finds attractive.

[JimC]

Troubled guy becomes woman and that woman only dates other women is more typical of the sightings and reports I've had.

Yep. Because that person wasn't gay as a man, just felt trapped in the wrong body. The surgery and hormones are not likely to change ones choice of sexual partner or who one finds attractive.

I wonder whether the "felt trapped in the wrong body" condition should always be treated as a permanent, authentic state which can admit of only one possible course of action for that individual, i.e. a sex change operation of some sort.

[Audley Strange]

I'm sure there is an entire spectrum of both biological and cultural influences, some people may benefit from surgery, some may not. I still feel though that our solutions are almost medieval due to our lack of technology.

[Robert_S]

Yeah they could spend millions and millions of pounds educating our police force to be a bit more sensitive to one human being so that one human being can be a police officer or they can get rid of shim and pay a couple of grand... hmmmm tough choice for a trivial problem.

Ah, but once a cop is OK with a trans person as a co-worker, wouldn't that process also lead to a more thoughtful and accepting person in general? And isn't it worth it to make our cops a bit less (pardon the expression) pigheaded?

And isn't it worth twice as much to watch the fundies fume and rage?