Wrote this story off a meeting Thursday night between transgender folks and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and his command staff.
Very interesting meeting, in part because of what didn’t happen. No heated exchanges, no accusations — as has happened often in previous meetings, I was told. The whole thing ended early — this in a meeting between two groups which have historically had many contentious dealings.
LAPD announced new a jail policy and a new officer training on dealing with transgenders on the street.
The comment to the story by DELTA5 is interesting, and well expressed — adding to the complexity of this story, seemed to me.
I think he has a point. The one thing transgender women — men dressing and identifying as women, even to the point of breast/buttock/cheek implants, but not a sex change — cannot change is their hands. They remain large and do not get smaller with hormone treatments, and thus remain potential weapons in a jail setting.
