BART Police Could Get Guidelines on How to Interact With Transgender People

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BART Police Could Get Guidelines on How to Interact With Transgender People

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/09/bart-police-consider-policy-how-interact-transgender-people/
12/09/2014
By Bryan Goebel

A BART police advisory board is considering a new policy that would establish a directive for how the department's 200 officers should interact with transgender people.

The proposed policy, hailed as a great first step by transgender advocates, was to be considered Monday by BART's Citizen Review Board, which makes recommendations to Police Chief Kenton Rainey.

Transgender people, especially trans women of color, are routinely profiled as criminals by police, said Ilona Turner of the Transgender Law Center, which helped craft the policy with the National Center for Transgender Equality.