Police officers in San Diego must refer to transgender and nonbinary individuals by their pronouns, must allow them to choose the gender of the officer who searches them and must take them to the jail facility that aligns with the person’s preferred identity, according to a new policy implemented Tuesday.
Police Chief David Nisleit said the new guidelines, developed in coordination with San Diego’s LGBTQ community and announced the first day of Pride month, “set clear expectations for interactions between (San Diego Police Department) officers and transgender and gender nonbinary community members.”
Under the new policy, officers must also properly document a person’s gender identity in police reports, follow proper procedures for transporting individuals who identify as female — which includes recording the transport on body-worn cameras and notifying a dispatcher of beginning and ending mileage — and “make every reasonable attempt to recover medications for the individual.”
“Missing medications as part of an individual’s transition can be life-threatening,” the new policy states.
“Historically, many members of our LGBTQ community — particularly those who identify as transgender or nonbinary — have not been recognized or respected for who they are. That changes with this procedure,” Mayor Todd Gloria, San Diego’s first openly gay mayor, said in a news release.
“This is a much-needed and welcome change that is symbolic of the respect we should have for one another and how we create a San Diego that is truly for all of us,” Gloria said.
Officer Christine Garcia, a traffic division investigator who transitioned from male to female in 2015, is the department’s transgender and LGBTQ liaison and acts as the direct link between those communities and the police chief. She said that while serving as a “straight man” before coming out, she sometimes heard “transphobic and homophobic remarks” from fellow officers.
After she came out, Garcia said, she believed that about half the department accepted her right away. A few more months passed, she said, and others came around to seeing that she was still a police officer “and just like any other normal human being.”
Garcia said San Diego police personnel received a training bulletin in 2014 dealing with interactions with the transgender community, but within the last year she recognized a need to formalize it.
“Since I am transgender myself, I took it upon myself to draw this up,” Garcia said, adding that she doesn’t expect any resistance to the new policy from officers. “But I don’t pretend to know everything about being transgender.”
Garcia asked that any transgender or nonbinary individuals who see issues with the policy or areas that need improvement reach out to her at [email protected] Acknowledging that members of the LGBTQ community do not always feel safe interacting with police, she also pointed out the department’s online “Safe Place” resource.
Historically, the relationship between the LGBTQ community and police has sometimes been fraught. The 1969 Stonewall riots, often credited with helping spark the modern day LGBTQ movement, started with police raids on a New York gay bar. Last year, San Diego Pride said it would no longer give law enforcement agencies a contingent in the Pride Parade, held each year in July, or booths at the Pride Festival.
Michelle Dungan, who is a volunteer and the current secretary of Neutral Corner, which was founded in 1985 and is the oldest transgender organization in San Diego, saw no major issues with the new policy.
“The main idea with this, primarily, is to make sure a police interaction doesn’t become negative right from the start, and to prevent law enforcement from doing things that might push people’s buttons,” Dungan said.
A retired environmental planner with Caltrans who transitioned on the job in 1994, Dungan said another important aspect of standardizing the new policy is the ability for individuals, “to seek ultimate rectification through the courts” if officers don’t follow the rules.
Courtney Skaggs, a La Mesa resident who is intersex and identifies as they/her, said the new guidelines “discourage assumptions and encourage self determination.” Skaggs added: “Encounters with police can be stressful and traumatic, and the fact that officers are mandated to respect pronouns and gender is important progress.”
But Skaggs questioned the new policy’s “lack of inclusion of intersex folks in key sections.”
While the policy offers a definition of intersex as “a person who has both male and female sex organs,” and mandates that officers ask an intersex arrestee if they prefer being searched by a male or female officer, Skaggs was disappointed the policy didn’t mention intersex people in sections about bookings, use of pronouns and transportation.
This story originally appeared in San Diego Union-Tribune.
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I think all of the police officers in San Diego, should be non – binary, transgenders and intersex, because that will really take care of crime, won’t it mentally ill liberals? I think all of the above named, have permanent cancer in the airspace between their ears. Liberalism is one of the most disgusting and evil things on the Earth. Liberals are the devil and the devil is liberalism!
A MAKE BELIEVE WORLD THAT THE LIBERALS, PROGRESSIVES, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, live in isn’t the world we all live in.
America’s Young shouldn’t be taught that a person can can think they’re one sex when their bodies design tells them that they are another sex defies common logic. Individuals may be suffering from a mental condition an are delusional but society has to deal with reality and there are consequences when society also refuses to recognize and deal with realities, reality has a way of bitting One in the AS*
i am afraid you are wrong we are living in that world because they stole an election and we sane people do nothing to stop it.
With the # of military in and around San diego, i am shocked all to hell, that it is THIS LIBTARD RIDDEN!
Your comment about ALL police officers being “nonbinary” might be the solution to the problem. A “nonbinary person” can be either male or female so they qualify to investigate/search a male or female or anything in between. Why shouldn’t law enforcement be able to claim the same rights as those breaking the law?
Liberal Democrats will never surprise me in their desire to promote Lies and any form of sexual perversions.
One’s relationship with GOD is entirely between them and GOD.
One’s relationship with Satan is entirely between them and Satan.
John 8:42-44, Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. 43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires.
Roger that brotha. God is my Savior and He is with me. This perversion is man-made and purely cultivated by the far-left Demi-Socialists and it will be their demise.
One’s relationship with either God or Satan spills over into our families and society, so it is not just between you and God or Satan. Our country is in this situation because those of us who are Believers have naively trusted our leaders for decades to do the right thing. We have become too much like the world and allowed ourselves to be distracted with all the trappings of the world. We gave our enemy, the Devil, an inch, and slowly, slowly, he has taken more and more ground because we weren’t paying attention. We keep electing unrighteous leaders and now here we are living in Sodom and Gomorrah. Right is wrong and wrong is right, up is down and down is up. Sin is glorified and evil is promoted. Only when we all repent and get right with God will this ship turn around. Will that ever happen? I doubt it, but only God knows. Pray for America and God help us all.
Scruffy-USN-Retired, this entire planet is evil or turning towards evil and are being led by the rich elitists who rule over it. Many people are turning away or are being led away from the holy book. But, if you read /know the following verse, 3 John 1:11 — “Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.” Now look around and ask yourself are the majority of the people of this planet of God?
When the last sane person leaves californication, please turn off the lights, and lock the door.
ONLY after we raise a massive wall around the entire state, to ensure NO LIBERAL EVER GETS TO LEAVE!
What kind of BS is this? Does the Police Officer have to wait for these nipple-sucking coddled basement dwellers to tell the LEO what they what to be called? During that time, that gives these looney bin nutjobs the ability to shoot the LEO. If I were Police, I wouldn’t respond to calls. They want to shackle the Police and Defund them. Let the liberal criminals take the streets and see how quickly people remember how much safer the streets were before their Ignorant hateful decisions were made.
Destroy a cohesive society – create chaos and these politician’s are still in office collecting a salary to destroy our country. From Harris/Biden to dog catchers we are watching our governmental leaders destroy everything that made America great. The media is also complicit.
AND what about those who are “Gender fluid”. DO the get to say “I am a female now”, get put in the gals area, have a gal search them, THEN CHANGE TO “hey i am a guy now”??
Eeny, Meeny, Miny Watch
As you Catch that Criminal by the Crotch
If he Hollers your arrest he’ll botch,
When his sex is revealed on the DNA swatch.
Since when does sex have anything to do with crime? So much for equal protection under the law, and unequal enforement OF the law.
I agree. Simple solution. MAKE ALL jails and prisons, GENDERLESS! Everyone get puts in the same ones.
When confronted by some sort of criminal event taking place I’m quite sure the officers answering the call will have time to ascertain preferred gender pronouns before taking action! Too many people today live in that Wonderful World of Makebelieve where things are what they would have them be not in reality as they are. They have the erronious notion that they can control eveything in the world around them in spite of what logic should tell them. Maybe there are plenty of genderless obscene words that could replace those pronouns.
So, simple, we have three jails, one for MEN, one for WOMEN and one for the mentally ill, LBGTQ and folks who have no idea what gender they may be. No problem. Just put the LBGTQ jail/prison at the Mexican Border and set up electronic court dealings so none of these folks ever need to set foot back into San Diego ever again. And house ALL of them together, no separation of sexes since they have no “sex” or “gender” – Call it Neverland! What a bunch of whooey..
We used to have plenty for those folks. THEY WERE called mental wards, with PADDED ROOMS!
The patient’s truly are running the asylum.
Reinforce the insanity, what could possibly go wrong?
Are you kidding ? A Police officer doesn’t have ENOUGH to worry about out there on the streets, NOW they have to worry about using the correct PRONOUN ! What a ridiculous rule for the San Diego Police Dept to put in place !
Does the criminal decide who is going to respond to the “ ILLEGAL”act they are committing? What’s next,Then let the criminal decide what time the police should respond to the scene?
WITH how lefitsts seem to put CRIMINALS RIGHTS ahead of everyone else’s, i am sure that will be next on their agenda.
Many of the plants that God created have been assigned a sexual identity by the Creator.
ALL of the animals that God created have been assigned a sexual identity by the Creator.
ALL of the humans that God created have bee assigned a sexual identity by the Creator.
Read the biblical record for yourself; when God was finished with His creation, He said “it is very good.” Thus, anyone confused or dissatisfied with the sexual identity that God Himself assigned are fighting against God and His will for their lives. This is a sin.
Oh, I’m sure the women in the women’s jail will really be happy to see some hulking man who “identifies as a woman” come stalking into their midst. /s
AHH , but like the bull we had to go through a few years back, RE trannies and school locker rooms etc, ONLY THE RIGHTS of the LGBTQ folks, seem to matter. NOT those of the other people.
Any women assaulted in custody by an IT should be eligible for millions in compensation paid by the city. She should be able to sue any officer that put her in jeopardy.
NOT just that, but EVERY POLITICIAN and judge who enables all those illegal invaders, to be in our nation, SHOULD GET Sued as an accessory to EVERY CRIME those illegal invaders commit!
First off, there is no such thing as non-binary. You are either male or female or, in extremely rare cases, a hermaphrodite, like snails and slugs. If you are confused, take a DNA test to confirm your binary identity. Mystery solved.
Or, just look down between your legs.
Virtue signaling and groveling at its best. NIce job Chief ! Seems like you forgot some of the rest of the population. I identify as a Giraffe. I want to be searched by a Tanzanian Monkey, and if incarcerated, want to serve my time in the San Diego Zoo. Am I good to go ? No different than men who think they’re women and women who think they’re men. Thanks for the help Chief.
Do the officers have to use padded handcuffs and can a support person be present to provide comfort? Do they get a lollipop if they are well behaved and cooperative?
Who comes up with BS?
I guess a lot of cops are going down for goosing the perps. lol
Make them get a genetic test to prove what sex they are before assigning a pronoun. In the meantime call them it or a derivative of it. They should be required to sit in solitary confinement until their genetic test comes back. They need to be assigned to the genetic group their test designates, or remain in solitary confinement.
I suggest all sane cops resign and run for office so they can get control and bring sanity back! No one can work under these insane conditions and this policy will just get policemen killed. Liberalism IS a mental disorder and will get us all killed.
The SODOMIZATION of America was its downfall… “2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. ” Zechariah 14:2 KJV
I am agnostic so any religion has not affect on me and neither do the lgbt, transgenders, nonbinary, etc. etc. as long as the leave me alone. I have had some religion believe wanting to talk to me about their beliefs but I cut them short so am left alone thereafter. By the same way, I do not want to hear any lgbt, transgender, etc. etc. Just go your own way, leave me alone and have a nice day. There are some groups who if you do not play their game, get hostile and physical. You have to give respect in order to receive respect.
WHile i felt like you did, ITS CAUSE WE DIDN’T fight this insanity, when it was in its “Infancy”, that is has been able to grow into this monolith it has become..
HAD WE FOUGHT AGAINST IT even becoming, back then, maybe we’d not have to be STILL FIGHTING IT NOW.
IF I WAS A COP IN THIS WEIRD CALIFORNIA CITY, I WOULD RESIGN ASAP IN ORDER TO SAVE MY INTEGRITY. This has to be one of the many reasons people are leaving this pathetic state, and going to more normal “real American states”. How can a cop even stay there, and have to put up with this lib ****???. San Diego is a picturesque city, but that is all..
IF I was a cop, ANYWHERE IN COMMIEFORNIA< i'd leave.
If this is what the police are sanctioning I will not donate any more to police or sheriff organizations. This article just saved me hundreds of dollars a year.
Is there no limit to the idiocy of the left?
Maybe they should require all police to be lesbian or castrated.
Mayne that’s what the left will push for next.. Castrating all cops.
Here’s a simple solution, just address them as “Hey You”.
How will the Police Officer that’s interacting with the “Third Genderized Person”(if it’s allowable to call”IT” a person) know what pronoun to use? Will Pronoun “Name Tags” be issued and will the LAW enforce the wearing of these name tags?