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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.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 18 2019, @03:12PM (4 children)
It does if they still do the women and children first thing in the event of an emergency that anyone actually survives. That's pretty fucking narrow as a reason though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday February 18 2019, @04:23PM (3 children)
That concept hasn't really been part of any kind of professional rescuing operations for the better part of a century. Instead, the pros look for 2 things, in order:
1. Can a rescue be attempted without a high chance of adding would-be-rescuers to the list of victims? If not, the right thing for rescuers to do is not attempt a rescue. Failing to do so can lead to depressing Darwin Awards [darwinawards.com].
2. What difference will the rescue make in terms of whether the victim you're trying to help will survive? The "tri" in triage comes from dividing victims into 3 categories, and rescuing them in this order: Those that will die without prompt help but will survive with help, those that are hurt but won't die if they have to wait a while, and those that are dead no matter what the rescuers do. That's not precisely what they do now because triage has become more sophisticated, but it's still the basic framework.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 18 2019, @04:42PM (2 children)
You're correct on most of that with the stipulation that professional rescuers are several orders of magnitude less cowardly than your average human being. What they consider acceptable risk is not what most people would if it were their own lives on the rescuer end of the line. They would never have taken up their profession to begin with were they inclined otherwise.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday February 18 2019, @05:36PM (1 child)
My main source on how emergency response actually works is my sister, who started out as an EMT and now is an ER doc. It was also part of my much lower-level training in basic wilderness medicine back when I was responsible for leading backcountry trips with kids - you always check for the risk to yourself before just going in. For example, if someone was just electrocuted by a downed high-voltage electrical wire, your first goal is to talk to the power company, not to charge in to perform CPR.
It's not cowardice to evaluate a situation, decide you have about a very low chance of even getting to the victims to do anything useful before succumbing yourself, and make the rational decision that going after the victims would be a bad move. As the saying goes, discretion is the better part of valor.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 18 2019, @06:03PM
You're coming at it from the perspective of someone who isn't letting fear make their decisions though. This is not the norm among humans.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.