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Title: Transsexual police officer transitions successfully in Utah
Post by: Shana A on December 08, 2009, 07:24:49 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 08, 2009, 07:24:49 AM
Transsexual police officer transitions successfully in Utah
December 7, 6:59 PM
Megan Coffey
http://www.examiner.com/x-18104-Sonoma-County-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d7-Transsexual-police-officer-transitions-successfully-in-Utah (http://www.examiner.com/x-18104-Sonoma-County-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d7-Transsexual-police-officer-transitions-successfully-in-Utah)
In more good news from unlikely places for the LGBT community, a female-to-male (FTM) transsexual police officer has successfully transitioned in Bountiful, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. Forty-two-year-old Corporal Kerry Bell, who has worked for the Bountiful Police Department for fourteen years, began his surgical and hormonal transition from female to male about a year and a half ago. Bell, who states he has always felt male, said he had no anxiety about coming out as transsexual to his fellow police officers.
Indeed, although some of his co-workers still have trouble remembering to use masculine pronouns to refer to Bell, they have otherwise been completely accepting. This is wonderful news not only for Bell, but also for the LGBT community as a whole: Given that most of the approximately 44,000 residents of Bountiful belong to the Mormon Church, which excommunicates members who undergo sex reassignment surgery, Bell might have expected a hostile reaction from his co-workers, rather than the warm welcome he received.
December 7, 6:59 PM
Megan Coffey
http://www.examiner.com/x-18104-Sonoma-County-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d7-Transsexual-police-officer-transitions-successfully-in-Utah (http://www.examiner.com/x-18104-Sonoma-County-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d7-Transsexual-police-officer-transitions-successfully-in-Utah)
In more good news from unlikely places for the LGBT community, a female-to-male (FTM) transsexual police officer has successfully transitioned in Bountiful, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. Forty-two-year-old Corporal Kerry Bell, who has worked for the Bountiful Police Department for fourteen years, began his surgical and hormonal transition from female to male about a year and a half ago. Bell, who states he has always felt male, said he had no anxiety about coming out as transsexual to his fellow police officers.
Indeed, although some of his co-workers still have trouble remembering to use masculine pronouns to refer to Bell, they have otherwise been completely accepting. This is wonderful news not only for Bell, but also for the LGBT community as a whole: Given that most of the approximately 44,000 residents of Bountiful belong to the Mormon Church, which excommunicates members who undergo sex reassignment surgery, Bell might have expected a hostile reaction from his co-workers, rather than the warm welcome he received.
Title: Re: Transsexual police officer transitions successfully in Utah
Post by: Autumn on December 08, 2009, 03:21:34 PM
Post by: Autumn on December 08, 2009, 03:21:34 PM
I have a friend who is into a lot of fetish culture who moved back to Salt Lake City this past year. She says the scene there is actually really healthy and she is much happier than she was in Houston.
Unlikely places...
Somehow I doubt MTF would have gone the same way, though.
Unlikely places...
Somehow I doubt MTF would have gone the same way, though.
Title: Re: Transsexual police officer transitions successfully in Utah
Post by: placeholdername on December 08, 2009, 03:28:53 PM
Post by: placeholdername on December 08, 2009, 03:28:53 PM
Unlikely? Everyone knows that religious people are the kinkiest :P.
Title: Re: Transsexual police officer transitions successfully in Utah
Post by: Keroppi on December 08, 2009, 09:09:04 PM
Post by: Keroppi on December 08, 2009, 09:09:04 PM
Quote from: Autumn on December 08, 2009, 03:21:34 PMThat was my reaction when I read this. I hope to be proven wrong.
Somehow I doubt MTF would have gone the same way, though.
Title: Re: Transsexual police officer transitions successfully in Utah
Post by: jesse on December 09, 2009, 02:05:10 AM
Post by: jesse on December 09, 2009, 02:05:10 AM
this is actually an inspiration for me as i am in law enforcement as well
jessica
jessica