When a biological male was allowed to use the women’s locker room and Norfolk Police Department Officer Meghan Grabow objected, the department didn’t protect her – it suspended her, the female officer says.
What’s more, Martin Powers, a male officer who spoke up in support of Grabow, was suspended, then fired.
“I’m completely stripped down to my underwear, and… [in comes] a man,” Grabow told Independent Women’s Features, recalling her first locker room encounter with the male recruit. “Here comes this man in a suit and tie… And [he] just stared at me.”
Grabow said she was told by her superiors that she should just take her gun into the shower with her, if she felt unsafe – and that she must use female pronouns for the biological male recruit and refer to him as “female” and a “woman.”
The transgender-identified recruit had also been caught deliberately using a female recruit’s shower towel, Powers said, noting that the sole female recruit was forced to change multiple times per day in front of the biological male.
Grabow and Powers tell Independent Women’s that the Norfolk Police Department severely retaliated against them for objecting to the department’s transgender policy:
“Both Powers and Grabow say they paid a steep price for speaking up—faced retaliation in the forms of termination and suspension. Grabow is currently appealing her suspension with the police department, Powers is attempting to exhaust all legal options.”
“The fear of reprisal is so serious” that females in the department are “terrified to even make a complaint about anything because they know what’s going to happen,” Officer Grabow said.
PJ Media notes the irony of the incident:
“The most ironic part is that the transgender-identified recruit ended up dropping out before officially becoming an officer. So Norfolk PD fired an officer of integrity (Powers), still has Grabow on suspension, and managed to drive away their only female recruit, all in order to affirm the mental illness of a man who left claiming he was emotionally traumatized.”
