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U.S. Airlines to Offer New Gender Options for Non-Binary Passengers
Air travelers who want to will soon be able to choose a gender option other than "male" or "female" when buying their tickets.
The new "undisclosed" or "unspecified" options are meant to make things easier for travelers and airlines as a growing number of local, state and national governments issue identification documents with alternative gender choices, according to Airlines for America, a trade group that represents many major United States carriers.
"U.S. airlines value a culture of diversity and inclusion, both in the workplace and for our passengers," the group said in a statement.
The Transportation Security Administration requires that travelers have gender markers associated with their tickets that match the identification documents they present at agency checkpoints. The new standard will make it easier for passengers who are gender nonconforming to travel with documents that more accurately represent their identities.
Delta Air Lines, which left the Airlines for America trade group in 2015, will also offer the new options.
If you're even flying at all, I'd suggest picking "Undisclosed" or "Unspecified" simply as a way to mess with the TSA.
Also at The Daily Beast, MarketWatch, and USA Today.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 18 2019, @09:30AM (8 children)
If restless leg syndrome can be called an illness, anything can. I'd say being a hermaphrodite is more of a birth defect than an illness but it's really up to the person in question how they choose to look at it. They can consider it a superpower for all I care.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday February 18 2019, @10:12AM (1 child)
True, RLS isn't an illness -- it's a syndrome [wikipedia.org]. It's definitely a real physical condition, though, not just a case where someone is antsy, energetic, or lacking in self-control.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday February 18 2019, @11:18AM
True. In fact, I don't have a problem with calling something illness. A good friend of mine, I suspect, is suffering from RLS but he gets offended (rightly so) if someone repeatedly starts pointing that out while he is talking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @10:32AM (5 children)
So you're saying it's OK for a hermaphrodite to identify their gender-related condition as something other than "Male" or "Female"? What about other gender-related conditions? Congratulations, you're now a liberal.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Monday February 18 2019, @11:31AM (3 children)
I am neither liberal nor conservative. I hate identity politics. I haven't put any effort in figuring out which label defines me. I agree to most of what Jordan Peterson says, and I am open to people having character flaws.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 18 2019, @03:19PM (2 children)
I halfway-to-mostly agree with most of what I've been forced to listen to by him. He's extremely poor at conveying a message to anyone outside of academia (boring as fuck, long-winded, and uses words with entirely different meanings in academia than in general use) though and generally at least slightly off-base on any given topic.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday February 20 2019, @06:50AM (1 child)
Yes, all those are traits that define academia. It is an indictment of our times that voices aligning with conservative ideas are ignored only because they don't sound academic enough. "Reality has a well-known liberal bias" - An ignorant comedian trained in acting.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 20 2019, @11:53PM
I just wish he'd take up shooting pool at bars on the weekends. Maybe he'd learn how to communicate with people who aren't in academia without making them want to jab an ice pick through their eardrums.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 18 2019, @03:15PM
Identify as whatever you like. That's entirely your right. Expecting the world to make allowances for you being silly is not.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.