{"id":2028210,"date":"2023-09-11T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/milwaukee-police-to-withhold-gender-of-crime-victims-under-pressure-from-lgbt-activists\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:27:19","slug":"milwaukee-police-to-withhold-gender-of-crime-victims-under-pressure-from-lgbt-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/milwaukee-police-to-withhold-gender-of-crime-victims-under-pressure-from-lgbt-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Police to withhold gender of crime victims due to LGBT activists&#8217; influence."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmilwaukee-police-to-withhold-gender-of-crime-victims-under-pressure-from-lgbt-activists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2028210&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>      Getty Images<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>The Milwaukee Police Department&#8217;s \u200dDecision to \u2064Protect\u200d Crime \u200cVictims&#8217; Privacy<\/h2>\n<p>The\u200b Milwaukee\u2064 Police Department has made an important decision to prioritize the dignity and\u200c privacy\u2064 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-supreme-court-rules-elimination-of-cash-bail-constitutional\/\" title=\"Illinois Supreme Court deems removal of cash bail constitutional.\">crime\u2062 victims<\/a>. \u2064In a move influenced by discussions with LGBT \u200cactivists, the department will no longer report the gender of victims in media releases.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Hough,\u2062 the \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-dc-gun-dealer-sees-business-boom-after-overcoming-city-roadblocks\/\" title=\"New DC Gun Dealer Sees Business Boom After Overcoming City Roadblocks\u00a0\">police department&#8217;<\/a>s chief of staff, explained, &#8220;It&#8217;s a way to preserve the dignity \u200cand\u200d privacy \u200bof\u200c all victims.&#8221; The \u200ddepartment aims to provide the best service possible for the entire community.<\/p>\n<h3>Advocating for Transgender Victims<\/h3>\n<p>One of the \u2064driving\u200b forces behind \u2064this policy change was the concern that police reports about transgender \u2062murder victims often failed\u200d to respect their gender identity. These reports would \u200drefer to their biological sex and use their birth names, causing distress and\u2062 erasing their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australia-to-introduce-law-forcing-social-platforms-to-unmask-anonymous-accounts\/\" title=\"Australia to Introduce Law Forcing Social Platforms to Unmask Anonymous Accounts\">true identities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Roby, director\u200d of finance and human\u2063 resources for Diverse and \u2064Resilient, an LGBT\u2062 nonprofit that collaborated with the department on this\u200c policy, \u200ccommended the decision. Roby emphasized\u2063 that \u200dthere is\u2063 no need to disclose a victim&#8217;s\u2064 gender to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing Concerns \u2063and Raising Awareness<\/p>\n<p>Some \u2064critics worry\u2063 that this policy may \u2062hinder efforts\u200b to bring attention to the \u2064homicides of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-norway-just-criminalize-misgendering-a-trans-person-even-in-private-homes\/\" title=\"Did Norway Just Criminalize \u2018Misgendering\u2019 a Trans Person, Even in Private Homes?\">transgender individuals<\/a>. However, Roby dismissed these concerns, stating that the\u2062 issue is already widely known and many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/milwaukee-police-to-withhold-gender-of-crime-victims-under-pressure-from-lgbt-activists\/\" title=\"Milwaukee Police to withhold gender of crime victims due to LGBT activists' influence.\">police department \u2063databases<\/a> do not report a victim&#8217;s\u200d transgender status.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that activists \u200dacross the country have\u2064 alleged\u2062 a &#8220;trans genocide&#8221; in progress in the United States. However, this\u2063 claim has been disputed by many.<\/p>\n<h3>Broader\u200c Implications<\/h3>\n<p>This \u200cdecision by the Milwaukee Police Department reflects a larger trend\u2062 in \u2064concealing\u2064 transgender identities. Several Democratic administrations, such as New Jersey governor\u200d Phil Murphy and\u2063 the\u2064 head of California&#8217;s\u2064 Department \u200bof Education, have embraced\u2062 policies \u200bto keep parents unaware of\u2062 their \u200dchildren&#8217;s\u200d gender identity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Police Department will no longer disclose crime victims&#8217; gender in media releases, aiming to respect victims&#8217; dignity and privacy. Heather Hough, the department&#8217;s chief of staff, stated that this decision was influenced by discussions with LGBT activists. The move intends to ensure equal treatment for all victims, as reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2112,"featured_media":2028211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}