{"id":5246,"date":"2009-08-16T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T04:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2009-08-16T00:02:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T04:02:30","slug":"the-trans-gender-police-roadshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-trans-gender-police-roadshow\/","title":{"rendered":"The trans-gender police roadshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a subtle move to counter their overly butch image, the police in the UK have come up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1206747\/Pictured-The-trans-gender-police-roadshow-spreading-word-gay-festival.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2009\/08\/15\/article-1206747-06117E0C000005DC-366_468x310.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"234\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The trans-gender police roadshow spreading the word at a gay festival.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in matching black t-shirts and handing out balloons, these are trans-gender members of the National Trans Police Association.<\/p>\n<p>They were pictured at the recent Sparkle 09 festival in Manchester&#8217;s Gay Village in a bid to encourage the trans community to report more incidents to the police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I understand the next pioneering effort will be to dress like criminals complete with tattoos and piercing, get to know the criminal community, hand out ducky little  switchblade and lock-pick sets and encourage thugs to give themselves up on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a subtle move to counter their overly butch image, the police in the UK have come up with this: The trans-gender police roadshow spreading the word at a gay festival. Dressed in matching black t-shirts and handing out balloons, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-trans-gender-police-roadshow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[2267],"class_list":["post-5246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}