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\n\n--- Page 1 ---\n\nGAINESVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT GENERAL ORDER TITLE ACCREDITATION Gender Identity and Expression Anti- None Discrimination Policy PRIOR REVISIONS 10/31/2019 PROPONENT UNIT LGBTQ Liaison Team ATTACHMENT: None NUMBER ISSUE DATE REVISION DATE TOTAL PAGES 22.14 10/31/2019 10/22/2024 10 I. PURPOSE: The purpose of this policy is to reaffirm the commitment of the Gainesville Police Department (GPD) to prohibiting discrimination against individuals based on their gender identity or expression and to outline GPD’s policies and procedures supporting that commitment. II. POLICY: The Gainesville Police Department will treat all individuals and employees with dignity and respect and provide a workplace that is free from discrimination. III. DEFINITIONS: A. Adopted Name - a non-birth name that a transgender individual uses in self-reference. This may or may not be the individual's legal name, and may or may not be the same name that the transgender individual's personal documents reflect (e.g., driver's license, passport, etc.). B. Ally – A person who does not identify as LGBTQIA, but supports the rights and safety of those who do. C. Asexual – A person who does not have a sexual orientation. A person that does not experience a sexual attraction but can experience a romantic, emotional, or aesthetic attraction to another person. D. Bisexual – A person who is attracted romantically, physically, or emotionally to both men and women. E. Cisgender - An adjective that refers to individuals who express themselves as and identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. F. Cross – Dresser – a term that refers to people whose dress is typically associated with the opposite sex. G. Gay – A person, mainly a male-identified person, who is attracted romantically, physically, or emotionally to another a person of the same sex.\n\n--- Page 2 ---\n\nGAINESVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT H. Gender Expression – an individual’s public manifestation of being male or female through external characteristics and behaviors such as clothing, haircut, body characteristics, and voice and speech patterns. Gender Expression is determined by using stereotypical notions of what it means to appear as a man or a woman, masculine or feminine. I. Gender Identity – an individual’s internal sense of being male or female, or something not defined by traditional definitions of male or female. J. Gender Non-conforming – refers to people who do not follow other people’s ideas or stereotypes about how they should look or act, based on the female or male sex they are assigned at birth. K. Intersex – Someone who’s physical sex characteristics are not categorized as exclusively male or exclusively female. L. Lesbian – A female- identified person who is attracted romantically, physically, or emotionally to another female-identified person. M. LGBTQ- An acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning. These terms are used to describe a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. N. Member– Any Gainesville Police Department employee, either sworn or non-sworn. O. PDID - Police Department Identification P. Prisoner – A person who has been arrested and is being held, transported, treated, booked, or otherwise detained pending arraignment, release, adjudication, transfer to another facility, or otherwise being processed or handled. Q. Queer – An umbrella term which embraces a variety of sexual preferences, orientations, and habits of those who do not adhere to the heterosexual and cisgender majority. The term queer includes, but is not exclusive to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, trans-people, and intersex persons, traditionally, this term is derogatory and hurtful, however, many people who do not adhere to sexual and/or gender norms use it to self-identify in a positive way. R. Sex - refers to an individual's biological or anatomical identity as male or female. S. Sexual Orientation - An individual's enduring romantic, emotional, and/or sexual attraction to individuals of a particular gender. T. TIGN- An Acronym for transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals. U. Transgender – A person who is a member of a gender other than that expected based on anatomical sex. Refers to any person whose gender identity or expression differs from the one which corresponds to the person's sex at birth. V. Transgender Man – a person who was assigned the female sex at birth but who identifies as a male 2\n\n--- Page 3 ---\n\nGAINESVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT W. Transgender Woman – a person who was assigned the male sex at birth but who identifies as a female. X. Transsexual - A person whose personal sense of their gender conflicts with their anatomical sex at birth. Y. Transvestite – An outdated term that refers to people who sometimes cross-dress, or whose dress is typically associated with the opposite sex. Many cross-dressers are heterosexual and typically present themselves in a manner consistent with their birth sex. Z. Transition – the process of changing one’s gender from the sex assigned at birth to one’s gender identity. IV. PROCEDURE: A. LGBTQ Community Liaison Team: 1. The team is comprised of officers who volunteer their time and receive no compensation for being on this team. The duties of this team are in addition to the regular duties of the member officers (depending where the officers are assigned: Patrol, Detectives, Command Staff, Crime Prevention, etc.) 2. These officers are chosen by the Chief of Police or his designee. These officers will serve at the will of the Chief of Police or his designee. 3. The purpose of the team will be to provide community liaison services to the gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. 4. The Team will serve as a point of contact for training and advertising resources for the department where LGBTQ issues are concerned. 5. The Chief of Police or his designee and may assign team members to perform the following functions: i. Represent the Gainesville Police Department at LGBTQ events, periodically visit LGBTQ businesses, associations and similar organizations. ii. Provide personal safety crime prevention information to the LGBTQ and provide information to the LGBTQ communities about police and criminal justice system practices and requirements. iii. May at the discretion of the Chief of Police or his designee, participate in recruitment activities with the emphasis on recruitment of LGBTQ candidates. iv. When requested by the CID commander or designee, assist with the investigation of crimes involving the LGBTQ communities. 3\n\n--- Page 4 ---\n\nGAINESVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT v. May provide advice to department command staff, and may also provide formal training to all department personnel regarding the needs and the views of the LGBTQ communities. vi. Provide any other outreach services as appropriate. vii. Shall assist members of the LGBTQ communities in filing of complaints with the City of Gainesville Equal Opportunity Office when requested by such citizens when they feel that they have been subject to discrimination as directed under City of Gainesville Ordinance Chapter 8 Article 2 – Human Rights Board. B. Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Employees: 1. Transition on the job: i. An employee considering transitioning may meet with their chain of command and/or representatives from the Personnel Division/Human Resources to develop a plan regarding day-to-day operational and administrative policy issues, which may arise during the transition. ii. Every employee is unique and the individual preferences of one person may be different than the preferences of another. iii. A transition plan may contain standard issues to discuss; however, plans may be customized to fit the individual transitioning employee. iv. If an employee desires to develop a transition plan it may include but not be limited to: a. Determining the date, if known, when the employee will change his or her gender expression, name, and pronouns. b. Discu