The Norfolk Police Department reportedly spent $57,000 renovating a women’s locker room so that a gender-confused male could shower and dress in the same facilities.
The renovations came after police officers raised concerns about an unnamed male’s use of the female locker room, according to the Independent Women’s Forum.
According to the work order, contractors were to add “toilet partitions,” “shower drying area partitions,” and carry out other modifications.
While the city has not acknowledged that the renovations are due to the presence of a male in the women’s locker rooms, the changes closely followed a controversy on the police force.
IW Features reported:
The renovation came after an alleged incident in the Norfolk PD when a transgender-identified male recruit entered the women’s locker room and stared at [Officer Meghan Grabow] when she was undressed, as IW Features previously reported. The department also allegedly demanded that officers address the male recruit as a female and use female pronouns. When officers attempted to gain clarity, the department reportedly retaliated by suspending officer Grabow and firing officer Martin Powers when he stood with female officers.
A former civilian police employee provided the women’s group with the documents which she obtained via a public records request.
Greta Sanchez said she spoke out at a city council meeting about the problems with letting men into a female-only space but “was met with disdain.”
She met the same apathy in November 2024 when she returned with more questions.
“They told me my questions were ridiculous, even though [department employees] were getting daily emails from the department that the locker room was going to be closed because of renovations,” Sanchez told IW Features. “When I asked why they weren’t demolishing the male locker room, they told me that [my] questions are ridiculous.”
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The police force is proud of its “inclusion” policy, boasting about its “historic leap towards equality and fairness within the LGBTQ+ community,” in April 2020.
As summarized by the Independent Women’s Forum, the policy “requir[es] officers to address transgender-identified individuals with ‘preferred pronouns'” and “[forbids] officers from questioning an individual’s ‘gender identity’ unless ‘legally necessary.'”
The policy also allows a gender-confused male to ask a female officer to pat him down.
Sanchez says these insane policies must be stopped: “This is going to spread across our little area if we don’t do something about it.”
[Featured image via Greta Sanchez and Independent Women’s Features]
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