Today, on #TransDayOfVisibility, the Washtenaw Prosecutor’s Office—in coordination with our partners at Fair Michigan —is adopting a policy regarding interactions with transgender, intersex, & gender
nonconforming persons.You can read the policy here: https://www.washtenaw.org/DocumentCenter/View/20101/Transgender-Interaction-Policy.
Among other things, *every* employee is now required to treat individuals—defendants, victims, witnesses, attorneys, & the general public—in a manner consistent with their gender identity, which may be different from sex-assigned-at-birth, or sex on government identification.
This is not just a matter of basic decency and respect (though it is, emphatically,… More
