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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: 0, Funny) by fakefuck39 on Monday February 18 2019, @03:22PM (4 children)
look at the keyboard expert over here. you are absolutely correct - gender is not used to determine if you can board the plane, nor is that the reason they ask for it. hey buddy - how many international flights have you taken? do you even have a passport?
gender, your place of employment, your address, as well as the other privacy-invading information they ask, are not used for boarding the plane. it's used to verify the person on the passport is the person holding the passport. the passport - something you should look into getting, uniquely identifies a person. that person can then be looked up in databases with information used to for boarding the plane. information that is completely useless if the passport and the passenger do not match.
now that we've established what gender is for at the airport, and that you are an ignorant idiot spouting your dumb little theories - let me ask you. would gender be more helpful in its purpose if we had more gender categories? absolutely, so this is a very good idea. put down you're a hydrogen atom, as long as you do it in all aspects of your life in that database - employment history, rent applications, bank loans. there may be may be more than one Thexalon Faggot out there, but only one that identifies as a transgender platypus. This helps more accurately ensure you are the person handing border patrol your passport, if you ever get one. This is not a system that can be gamed by trolls either, since if you identify as a gay platypus on your passport but identify as "old unattractive loser incel" on you bank account, you'll be denied boarding.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday February 18 2019, @04:43PM (2 children)
I have traveled internationally. So has all of my immediate family. At least where I've traveled, they're looking for a few things on your passport:
1. Are you who you say you are? That's where the photo comes in, along with any other government-issued ID you might be carrying. They're also looking for signs that you respond readily to the name on the passport, anything you sign matches up, and that you aren't acting nervous. If you're named Mary but have sideburns and a mustache in your passport photo, the person holding that passport needs think they're named "Mary" and either have sideburns and a mustache or look like they can grow one.
2. Are you allowed to enter the country you're traveling to? That's not affected by your gender or physical sex in any way.
What they don't do without a damn good reason is grope your crotch to ensure that your genitals match what your passport says you should have. That makes "M" or "F" a less useful data point than height or weight.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday February 19 2019, @04:52AM
I thought crutch groping was now common before boarding a flight? Haven't traveled internationally in a long time.
(Score: 0) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday February 19 2019, @09:15PM
way to miss the entire point there retard. the point is whether or not more gender categories would be helpful to match the person to the passport. the whole point is that if it didn't say "M" or "F" but instead said "transgender M" it would be more useful to identify you. Like when they pull up your mortgage info and it says "M" but on your passport it says "transgender M." That little computer they have, if you've ever been to secondary inspection, has a bunch of personal info on it - height, weight, eye color, place of employment, the highschool you went to, your bank information. They match that info to what is on your passport, and match it against your replies to their questions.
If you'd like the experience of secondary, tell them "on a tropical island fucking your father in his loose asshole" when they ask you where you've been upon reentry. I do that when I have a couple of hours to kill and am dying of boredom.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @09:36PM
BZZT! Wrong. The MAC (and Real Soon Now™ IPv6) address on your government implanted tracking beacon uniquely identifies you.
I find your lack of faith in our governmental identification implants disturbing.