Is it ‘false’ non-binary or false ‘non-binary’?
A shocking headline:
Seven police interviewed, station raided over ‘false’ non-binary claims
Victoria Police officers have searched the force’s Frankston station and interviewed several officers accused of claiming to be non-binary to fraudulently claim more money for civilian clothing allowances.
You mean claiming to be non-binary when they’re not actually non-binary?
So…how can they tell? What’s the difference? What were they searching for when they searched the station? Binary fingerprints? Binary clothes, binary badges, binary socks? What? What exactly is there to search for? What is the difference between real non-binary and fake non-binary? What happened to “people are who they say they are”?
Chief Commissioner Shane Patton announced a probe into the issue in July, after reports that some male officers had been rorting a discrepancy in the force’s clothing allowance by identifying as non-binary.
But if they identify as non-binary they are non-binary. Does the Chief Commissioner not know that? It’s the rule, and it’s absolute.
Under the scheme, female officers are entitled to claim about $1300 more than male colleagues.
I suppose that’s because clothing manufacturers systematically price women’s clothing higher than men’s even when the clothing in question is identical.
Professional Standards Command detectives arrested a member of the Frankston crime investigation unit on Monday, according to a police source not authorised to speak publicly.
But people are who they say they are!!!
Patton announced the investigation after the force noted a sharp increase in the number of officers identifying as gender-neutral over the previous year.
The claims were first raised by the @discernibleofficial Instagram page in June, which posted: “We have unconfirmed reports from inside Victoria Police that management is pulling their hair out after a majority of a CIU (crime investigation unit) in southern region changed their profile in the HR system to be ‘gender neutral’.”
Because they are gender neutral. Who is this “management” who dares to question it?
Patton then told all members in a statement that “conduct of this sort, if validated, is not acceptable and falls far short of the standards I expect from Victoria Police members and standards of behaviour outlined in our code of conduct and Victoria Police values”.
He said the option to self-describe had been introduced about three years ago as an act of good faith to support gender diverse employees.
What does “gender diverse” mean? How, exactly, does anyone know which is real and which is fake?
“This behaviour has had a significant impact on our gender diverse employees and our reputation among the Victorian LGBTIQ+ community.
Oh no!! Oh no oh no oh no!!!!!!!
How’s their reputation doing among the Victorian women community? Have they ever sought to find out?
Officers wanting to claim the allowance, which is paid fortnightly, must now make a sworn statement if intending to self-describe as non-binary.
And the brass will know when they’re lying about it by……………………….?
“Patton then told all members in a statement that ‘conduct of this sort, if validated, is not acceptable and falls far short of the standards I expect from Victoria Police members'” … non-binary identities are always valid.
Anyhow, … who is and who isn’t “gender diverse” appears to be Victoria’s secret.
Well, I’ve learned a new verb: to rort. I admire these police officers – they’ve made a genuine farce of the whole farce that is ‘identifying as non-binary’. I particularly like the outraged & Harry Enfield-like comments of Shane Patton and his solution to the problem: that officers wanting to claim the allowance must make a sworn statement that they are, indeed, non-binary. That should be an easy way of getting the allowance, since there appears to be no way of proving that you have lied under oath.
And the Frankston police station has been searched! I must say, the story is almost too good to be true.
Same; I had to look up “rort”.
Interesting that, for whatever reason, the police officers decided to take advantage of this provision rather than protest the monetary discrimination against officers that aren’t “non-binary.” Why should special snowflake NBs get more money for clothes than plain, boring “cis” officers? Is it up to the police department to subsidize lifestyle choices like this? What are “non-binary” clothes? What do they look like? How can you tell? Who makes them or sells them? Is the Crime Investigative Unit running around in hideous, inflatable, black vinyl outfits looking like a whole squad of Sam Smiths*, desperately searching for a paparazzi-lined red carpet? (Imagine the horrible squeaking in the squad car!) At designer prices, they’re going to need a bigger budget.
If nobody conforms 100% to the gender they’re “assigned at birth,” then everyone is NB. Who are the police to adjudicate this sort of thing and reward some and not others with financial incentives and compensation? As noted above by Ophelia, how can they tell? Or are they confusing NB with gender fluid, so that those members of their force who are flipping back and forth between identities like Philip/Pippa Bunce, get coverage for two complete wardrobes to cover both “boy mode” and “girl mode?”
* If you didn’t see this the first time ’round, behold: https://people.com/style/sam-smith-sports-dynamic-harri-outfit-red-carpet-2023-brit-awards/
Non-binary fingerprints, clothing etc. include numerals 2 3 4 ….
lol @ the horrible squeaking.
My kingdom for a nice sharp Dixon Ticonderoga!
RORT. Such a common word in AU, so useful, surprised the rest of the world is only now catching up with us.
Some Enbee on twitter knows the pain of people pretending to be something they’re not.
https://twitter.com/RachelK01840150/status/1691705028455588307
Bloody hell, how do Australians manage without ‘rort’? On the other hand I’ve managed to get through 62 years without knowing what a Dixon Ticonderoga is so there’s that.
I think he was saying Australia does have rort, but not other parts of the world. I for one have never heard it before today. Like others here, I had to look it up. It is a good word. I could work it into things, but no one would understand me. Oh, well, according to some of my colleagues, no one understands me anyway. I do tend to have a tendancy to use words like ‘indefatigable’ and ‘sparse’ and ‘correlation’. All of those have gotten ‘huh?’ looks.
Checking in the officer’s locker for a non-binary flag. Foolproof! Checkmate, gender sceptics!
But a conventional flag has two sides! That’s an own goal right from the start. A truly appropriate Non-binary flag would, of course, be a Möbius strip.
Sorry iknklast that should have been NON-Australians (being Australian myself). I really should learn to resist the temptation to comment when I’ve been awake an insane number of hours!
#the joys of insomnia