I would like to hear the entire story. How did the police determine there was a "safety issue"? What constituted the "safety issue"? All too often police arrest trans people over "safety issues" that they either exaggerate or manufacture just to have something to arrest them for.

Yes, there is little trust for police in the trans* community because all too often and for far too long trans people have been subject to arrest simply for being themselves, or as radargrrl notes, merely for needing to use a washroom.

So was it a derail or was it a police fail? None of the articles clears up that question.