Utah police to undergo transgender training

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Utah police to undergo transgender training
by Seth Bracken
03 March, 2011


http://qsaltlake.com/2011/03/03/utah-police-to-undergo-transgender-training/


A normal traffic stop lasts no more than 10 or 15 minutes. Especially a routine stop because of a faulty taillight. However, that was not the experience for John Smith (name has been changed).

"Everything was going fine and normal until the officer took my information back to his car, where he pulled my records," Smith said about the incident, which occurred in 2003.

The officer would have seen on his records that Smith used to have a different first name. And a different gender. He was not born a biological man and his old name was obviously female.

"That's where the mistreatment began," Smith said. "He grilled me. I was polite and courteous. He was rude and abrasive. But the mistreatment didn't start until he had found my records."