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Originally Posted by philip.j.fry
In all honesty, any police officer who's duties are likely to take them into situations such as those will probably be sensible enough to remove anything like earings that could end up being ripped out. However, what about all of the desk officers, forensic officers, detectives etc whose daily duties do not involve said duties?
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OK, maybe my original post was a bit strongly phrased, and my reasoning only applies to some Police officers.
However, I don't see how the decision (for whatever reason) is discriminating against gay men, unless the Officers claiming discrimination are claiming that a man would have to be gay to wear earrings & studs. If this is the case, then they are discriminating as there plenty of straight males who wear various kinds of jewellery. If the force is discriminating against anyone (and I don't think they are), then it is against men in general.