Amnesty International’s report, Stonewalled: Police abuse and misconduct against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the U.S., is not good news at all.
The reports on the NYPD alone make me sad, and a little more scared. You shouldn’t have to feel like you’re relying on luck to be treated even moderately well by the police, but from what this report says, that is the case.
So what do we do about this? I’d be happy to conduct transgender-sensitivity training for the NYPD, if anyone knows anyone who could make that happen.