Britain’s Metropolitan Police Plans to Introduce Gender-Neutral Uniforms

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Britain’s Metropolitan Police Plans to Introduce Gender-Neutral Uniforms

Britain’s Metropolitan Police has a plan to introduce gender-neutral uniforms. To make the changes in the current uniform, the force started consulting its officers, who are nearly 30,000.

According to the Sun reports, the forces may violate the 2010 Equality Act. The Act states to provide separate uniforms to gender-fluid officers and non-binary officers.  

The officer who goes by Alex Blue has a different belief that it could be indirect discrimination if separate uniforms are not provided to the force. This was stated in one of the newspapers.

The other suggestion given to Met by one of the officers is to provide uniform items that don’t fall under male or female categories.

On the other side, the equality campaigner Peter Tatchell shared his view, which suggests that there should be one uniform for all. He quoted: ‘Separate uniforms for officers is a legacy of the sexist past’.

The decision could have wider implications on other organizations including the armed forces and other public bodies.

Last year, a gender-fluid engineer who was branded ‘IT’ by colleagues at Jaguar Land Rover was awarded £180,000 after winning a landmark discrimination case.

Rose Taylor, 43, was teased and harassed at the car manufacturer after she began identifying as gender-fluid or non-binary in 2017.

An employment tribunal heard how she suffered insults and abusive jokes at the hands of co-workers after she started wearing women’s clothes.

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