Cop in Trouble After Using ���Wrong��� Pronoun to Identify Transgender Person

It appears that cops are under fire these days for all kinds of reasons.

According to The Daily Caller, it looks as though the entire Fort Lauderdale, Florida Police Department is going to have to attend training designed to make its members more aware of, and sensitive to, the special considerations of interacting with transgender persons.

To include learning by what pronoun to refer to them.

This all started when Office James Brinton stopped Shelby Kendall for a traffic violation back in January. Brinton is a transgender woman, but Officer Brinton continually referred to Kendall using male pronouns.

What particularly upset Kendall, a male who identifies as female, is that when Brinton issued the citation, he���d indicated Kendall���s gender on the ticket as that of male.

Kendall alleges that Brinton would not change the gender noted on the ticket, even though she���d asked him to do so.

���If I���ve done everything I need to do for the state of Florida to recognize me as a female, he doesn���t have a right to purposely mis-gender me,��� said Kendall.

The complaint initiated by Kendall led to involvement by Fort Lauderdale���s Citizens Police Review Board, which ultimately made the recommendation that the entire department undergo special sensitivity training.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large