As someone who's a fan of the 3:30:300 (3 trees per house hold, 30% canopy, 300 metre from a wild park) rule as a minimum,this is good news. We just those in Oxford moaning about not being able to do rat runs in their cars to shut up, and we will be on our way to having walkable, cyclable, clean air, clean water in our cities.

Also worth pointing out that some of the first cars were electric, and the is quite an odd picture of this Victorian woman on an electric scooter.

Every time I see a story like this just reminds me of how my mum's boyfriend would say how when he used to be a milkman he used a little electric van. Just find it ironic how we've gone full circle but had to destroy the planet for it.

I grew up in Spain. People never cared about this in the first place, not in a native way. They just didn't care if a boy played with dolls or a girl with cars. If a guy wanted to do girly things he could, and vice versa. This was in a small very traditional village. All the cared about was being happy and living a good life. The only judged you based on your personality, and your actions. They helped people in need without thought.

Very least that was my experience of the country.

Because it's coming from the UK. So we stole it and consequently invented it.

We've also invented roads, toilets, sandwiches, teddy bears, engines, everything we, stole, invented it.

Valid points. But I will add this, maybe it's so the officer at the scene is able to identify quickly if a different gendered officer is required or even how to refer to them.

But honestly, I have no idea. I'm just trying to think of reasons on why it was put on them in the first place.

I would think it's for when/if that individual is being taken to jail, searched, or taken to prison they can be dealt with by the appropriate gender. Example being I would not liked to be searched in any form by the opposite sex than myself. Not would I like to go to a prison with the opposite sex.