The California Attorney General's office recently issued a draft report that drew data from 58 of the state's largest law enforcement agencies. The data shows that nearly half -- 44% -- of all stops made by police of transgender individuals were based on "Reasonable Suspicion" alone. Cisgender women were stopped for reasonable suspicion less than 9% of the time, and cisgender men were stopped for that reason 11% of the time. Alex Binsfeld, legal director at the San Francisco-based Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project told the San Francisco Chronicle, “It’s in effect a way to enforce Western gender binary norms on appearance, that you will be punished if you are not gender binary in your appearance. Policing of trans folks at these disparate rates has led advocates to argue it’s a status crime.” These statistics are a large part of why so many members of the transgender community feel unsafe with police presence at Pride events.
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