Tuesday, September 5, 2023

 I had to laugh at this report from Australia.

Police officers in Australia have been accused of falsely registering as non-binary as part of a scheme to claim a higher clothing allowance from their department.
At least 17 officers from the Victoria Police have been interviewed in the force’s investigation of the alleged scheme, according to the Herald Sun, which was first brought to light on social media in June.
Victoria officers identifying as female are given a clothing allowance $1,300 higher than those identifying as male — and those who identify as non-binary or gender neutral receive the same stipend, a loophole investigators believe male officers are exploiting to pocket more money.
Participation in the scheme seemed to spread like wildfire — at one point, one department employee per day was newly identifying as non-binary.
By June, more than 130 employees identified as non-binary — up from just 32 the prior year.

As the late President Reagan pointed out, "If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it."  The Victoria police effectively subsidized the transgender brouhaha by offering more money to those who took that route, with the result that many of its employees took advantage of their offer.  How could they have reasonably expected any other result?
Now they're threatening consequences against those officers who've taken advantage of this loophole.  I don't see how they can act against them when all the officer has to do is point out that he identified as non-binary - not that he actually was non-binary.  Nothing in their regulations appears to have required him to provide evidence of his claim, such as undergoing surgery or taking any other irreversible, verifiable action.  That being the case, how has he broken any law?  Identification is solely in the mind, and physical evidence of it is just about impossible to provide.

There's more at the link:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/victoria-police-officers-allegedly-idd-as-non-binary-in-clothing-allowance-scheme/

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