PSNI panders to radical trans ideology

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is subjecting staff to training steeped in transgender ideology, it has been revealed.

A course delivered to officers by trans-activist charity Cara-Friend encouraged them to embrace disputed ideas, parrot trans language and be “vocal allies” to the LGBTQI+ cause.

The PSNI only handed over the controversial material after a nine-month wrangle with the Belfast News Letter.

LGBT allies

Cara-Friend told PSNI officers that ‘sex’ is “assigned at birth”, “gender is a social construct” and children as young as three can be transgender.

The training promoted the use of “preferred pronouns” and informed attendees that some people described themselves as “xe/xem” and “ve/vir”.

A raft of LGBT expressions was also presented to staff, including “agender”, “allosexual” and “greysexual”. At the end of the course staff were encouraged to “challenge queerphobia”.

The police force informed the News Letter that “112 officers and staff from PSNI Public Protection Branch attended this training”, and that it would “form part of officer and staff’s continuing personal development”.

Stonewalling

The newspaper submitted a Freedom of Information request in July 2023, but the PSNI refused to disclose any details of the material used to train officers.

In subsequent exchanges with the News Letter, the force claimed that doing so could “prejudice Cara-Friend’s commercial interests”.

When an appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Officer over the PSNI’s decision failed, the newspaper escalated the matter to a tribunal, at which point the PSNI had a change of heart.

PSNI made a £500 donation to Cara-Friend for the material. The pro-trans activist group receives approximately 60 per cent of its income from the public purse.