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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ms Wylder is now questioning why Victoria Police prioritised defending the case for more than two years.

Presumably because the court system is broken? Two years for lawsuits against a public service is almost fast for the canadian court system. IDK this seems... Like, yeah, the system was clearly broken - but it wasn't like they even misgendered her solely on the basis of anti-trans bias, they even recorded her as potentially being pregnant. It seems like the system just made a mistake, or referenced another system that hadn't updated her gender.

From working with these systems, social service referrals are not handled by the police - that is given over to another agency, who match against their own records to confirm identity instead of taking the information from the police reports. This is done because the cops are idiots who write things down wrong all the time - it just seems like in this one instance the cops recorded things right and the referenced systems did not have the correct gender information for her yet (possibly because it had not been officially changed?)

Honestly this really seems like the cops didn't screw up, it was the social service group that did the referral who borked things - which may be why the cops fought this, it's not like there's tons of examples of them handling transgender-involved anything correctly....