Britain’s most PC PC faces ridicule for warning High Street shops that ‘feminine care’ signs on women’s sanitary products breach gender equality rules
from Mailonline:
A police force was facing ridicule last night after a high-profile hate-crime officer warned High Street stores that ‘feminine care’ signs on women’s sanitary products breached gender equality rules.
Sergeant Peter Allan was branded ‘meddlesome’ and ‘over-officious’ in an angry backlash, after telling Tesco and Sainsbury’s that men might want to use the sanitary products and suggesting the signs were discriminatory.
Sussex Police faced a deluge of condemnation and disbelief after the officer used social media to advise stores to swap feminine-specific signs for gender-neutral alternatives such as ‘personal hygiene’ or ‘personal care’.
Sgt Allan tweeted Sainsbury’s with a picture of ‘feminine care’ shelves in one of its stores, writing: ‘It’s an issue of gender identity. Men may use the products. Indeed, men’s products were on the shelf. “Personal care” perhaps.’
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