As someone who is transgendered and lives in a supposedly tolerant city - Manchester - I do wonder, this week of all weeks, how fit for purpose the police are in Greater Manchester. Never mind the rest of the UK. The police seem to be incapable of protecting our children, let alone people like you or me.

This is a week when the Greater Manchester Police decided that they had done nothing wrong with the Rochdale grooming cases, and let's be truthful - it did only took them SEVEN years to review their own inadequacies. It's mind boggling that no policeman (no women officers were involved) has been held accountable or prosecuted after the results were published today. Apparently burglary cases were deemed more important and money was diverted from the sex grooming cases to easier to convict cases. Mind boggling.

One of the victims was raped by 20 different men in one night.

I truly hope it will not take as long as the Hillsborough case has taken for us to find the truth and punish the perpetrators. And let's be clear - it's not just the police, it's also all the social services -across the UK.

We live in a supposedly tolerant society - where many at the edges and at the bottom get punished and abused for being vulnerable. So we as T girls surely need to stand up for all these abused people, don't we?

Maybe you think you cannot do anything. You can - whether it's in your boy or girl name you can make a real difference. Join groups that are pushing for exposure and a commitment to a better society.

It's your choice, and - it doesn't involve showing your face pic as a tranny !!!!


hugs


Pauline xxx
This post was edited by Pauline Smith at March 13, 2015 6:46 PM GMT

I don't think many organisation are fit for purpose in our society of tolerance. We have to respect all people and also be respected - not everyone does have the same values or respect of law in our multicultural, multi-class, multi wealth, multigender, etc Country. Notwithstanding the Police lets those children down (just like their parents and families did).
This post was edited by R Fox at March 14, 2015 9:35 AM GMT

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My Mum (85) and I were discussing this yesterday (Mother's Day). It seems amazing the number of organisations which were 'respected' when she was a child which are now held in such low esteem. Police, teachers, carers (unless they are unpaid) even judges. We were not sure whether they brought it on themselves or were helped by various governments of the day. Added to this was the self gratification era brought in by Maggie Thatcher and we have a society which is happy to turn a blind eye to all sorts of things. This does make it more tolerant. Perhaps to the point of blaming institutions rather than individuals.