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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: 5, Informative) by coolgopher on Monday February 18 2019, @10:11AM (5 children)
That's a very limited world view, even just speaking biologically. You might want to consider widening your horizons a bit.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @10:33AM
Fiction has it's place. Science, civil society and aviation are not that place.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 18 2019, @10:58AM (3 children)
Even a true hermaphrodite is going to be male or female, depending on his mood, or whatever. It's pretty much a binary. There was Boy George, of course, but even he dressed as both when he couldn't decide which to be.
ICE is having a Pretti Good season.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 18 2019, @03:10PM (2 children)
How you dress or feel has nothing to do with whether you're male or female. We don't actually have any standards for how you must feel for either gender, only norms that almost nobody conforms all the way to. So, be as atypical as you like but I'm not going to think of you as anything but born male and still male, born female and still female, or an unfortunate mutant.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 18 2019, @05:39PM (1 child)
If I'm to believe all the stuff I've read on the subject, there are some very small number of people with both sets of genitalia. Anybody's guess what happens when such a person is flooded with hormones at puberty. I did specify genuine hermaphrodites, as opposed to transgenders and such.
I filtered through two pages of irrelevant hits to find this one - https://www.newhealthadvisor.com/Hermaphrodite-Human-Pictures.html [newhealthadvisor.com] It's enough to give you an idea, I think.
ICE is having a Pretti Good season.
(Score: 3, Informative) by dry on Tuesday February 19 2019, @04:46AM
Actually Doctors surgically assigning sex at birth or shortly after is more common then most people realize, especially trimming the clitoris. Sometimes it seems to be done by coin toss. Heard interviews with a couple of them where both felt very strongly the Doctors made the wrong choice.
Wiki has an interesting article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_medical_interventions [wikipedia.org] Things are much more complex then people are simply male or female, and that's not even considering the effects of hormones.