Police Officers Suspended for Objecting to Male Recruit in Women's Locker Room

Calvin Freiburger : May 19, 2026
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"That man looked at me like a dude would, not a woman." -Officer Meghan Grabow

(Norfolk, VA) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Two Virginia police officers are facing suspension and possible termination for objecting to a gender-confused male recruit being allowed to use women's lockers, according to a disturbing new report. (Image: Created by Grok-xAI)

Independent Women's Features interviewed Officers Meghan Grabow and Martin Powers of the Norfolk Police Department (NPD), who relayed a situation starting in 2024 about a "transgender" recruit with reports that he appeared in social media posts wearing a wig and makeup and word from the department to treat the recruit as female.

Powers saw nobody in the group of new recruits who stood out as transgendered, so he initially concluded "maybe everybody was just grossly mistaken." But that proved not to be the case when, while Grabow was changing during a shift, she said a recruit came in and made no effort to dress or act like a woman.

"I'm completely stripped down to my underwear, and ... (in comes) a man. Here comes this man in a suit and tie ... And (he) just stared at me," she recalled. "What are you doing in here?" she asked, only for him to ignore her and move to another locker. After she dressed, Grabow reported the incident to both her captain and the training academy captain, who were dismissive.

"What were you doing in the locker room in your underwear?" she says her captain asked of her. "Am I going crazy?" she thought at the time. "This is not happening, right? This is so surreal."

"That man looked at me like a dude would, not a woman," she recalls explaining to them, only to get a flippant remark about bringing her gun to the shower if she felt unsafe. She accused the department of having "kept it a secret until ... it happened to one of us. They knew exactly who I was talking about and why they were in my locker room."

Later, a female detective organized a meeting of more than a dozen male and female officers with Norfolk Police Chief Mark Talbot, who refused to let the officers refer to the recruit with anything other than the "proper term" of "woman," changing the incident to misleadingly imply that Grabow "looked up and saw a woman standing there."... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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