Diversity Training Teaching Police Officers Not to Say ‘Shemale’ and ‘Tranny’ No Longer on Website

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A diversity training that taught police officers to apologize for misgendering “transgender” people, avoid using “unacceptable terms” such as “Tranny,” “Shim,” and “Shemale,” and urged agents to attend pride events “in uniform” to build relationships has been removed from the Department of Justice website.

Under the Biden administration, the United States Department of Justice Community Relations Service offered an in-person and web-based training program for law enforcement officers titled “Engaging and Building Relationships with Transgender Communities,” which aimed to “help officers develop relationships and improve their interactions with transgender communities and individuals.” The internet archive shows the training, which included two 90-minute sessions, was available online as late as Jan. 14 and was removed from the CRS website by Feb. 1, after President Donald Trump took office.

Course materials obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation through a public records request show police officers were instructed on how to implement gender ideology, the false belief that a person can change their sex, into their everyday police work. The training explained how gender-confused individuals attempt to change their sex through legal, social, and medical interventions, including gender surgery and cross-sex hormone therapy.

The curriculum provided a list of “unacceptable terms” that police officers should not use when engaged with the community, including “Shim,” “Tranny,” “Transvestite,” “He-She,” and “Shemale.” “Transgender'” and “trans” were listed as acceptable terms for non-transgender police officers to use when addressing gender-confused people. Police officers were also told to ask community members for their preferred pronouns and apologize if they "misgendered" an individual.

“If you happen to misgender an individual, apologize and do not repeat the same mistake,” states the training materials.

Law enforcement was also instructed to “be careful” when interacting with a “transgender teen” who may not have shared their new identity with family and friends.

“It is important for law enforcement to be careful when engaging with what could be a transgender teen, as the may not have shared their current transition with family, friends, or other community members.”

Gender ideology activists believe adults working in social government institutions, such as schools, should conceal information about a children’s gender confusion from their parents if the child has not agreed to share this information.

The stated goals of the trainings include helping participants understand the difference between the terms “transgender” and “gender non-conforming” and identifying misconceptions about “transgender” people. However, the curriculum specifies it is trying to help participants “understand transgender individuals better,” not change their values.

“This training does not try to change your values,” the training materials state. “The purpose is to expand your powers of listening and observation to see, hear, and understand transgender individuals better.”

The DOJ first piloted the web-based version of the program in July 2022, according to a CRS news release. The CRS has trained police officers to embrace gender ideology in their police work since 2016, according to a tweet.

The training provides police officers with ideas on how to engage the transgender community such as attending pride events in uniform, teaching citizens how to fill out hate crime reports, and focusing on diversity hiring practices, noting diverse groups of people “produce better results.”

“Research proves that diverse working groups operate more effectively and produce better results than groups composed largely of the same types of people,” states the training.

Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation