Posted on 02/15/2019 8:42:39 PM PST by Simon Green
Travelers booking with certain U.S. airlines will reportedly soon be offered new gender options.
The adjustment will provide passengers alternate choices when booking their tickets, The Associated Press reported on Friday.
The modification is being put into effect as a means to promote inclusivity, according to the airlines.
Undisclosed” or “unspecified” will reportedly be among the new options made available.
The booking tools used to arrange flights on American, Delta and United airlines are currently being restructured with the new selection, which is expected to be changed in the coming weeks, they told The Associated Press.
American Airlines spokesman Matt Miller was optimistic about the rollout while noting that the company has “a very diverse customer base.”
United Airlines plans to let people select M for male, F for female, U for undisclosed or X for unspecified from the gender menu when booking a ticket on its website or mobile app, spokeswoman Andrea Hiller told the outlet. They will also have the option of picking "Mx." as a title.
United also tweeted about their plan to provide customers with the ability “to select the gender with which they most closely identify during the booking process.”
A nonbinary option is also expected to be made available to fliers buying tickets on Delta and Alaska Airline flights, company officials told The Associated Press.
U.S. and international airline trade groups reportedly approved a new standard recently to handle customers with "nonbinary" IDs. The standard, which is not mandatory but more like guidance, takes effect June 1.
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As if the Stewardesses don’t already have enough to do, while Babysitting cranky 50 & 80 y/o people.
Their Labor Union may start demanding more moo-lah!
Identifying bodies in a big crash will be fun.
Full body scanners have also been setup to convert penises into vaginas and vice versa.
let’s just simplify this and call everyone by their last name, first initial. Or Your Highness works, too. Half the people want to pretend they’re royalty anyway.
That is the thing. I have 3 million air miles and have never seen a single thing on a plane that is “gendered.”
Seats, restrooms, food — all are nueter.
And the TSA still only uses F and M. So this is an added step that accomplishes nothing.
They make everyone democrat?
Male
Female
Freak
Female
Freak
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You got it!!
And if they spot that U or X flying into some parts of the world best watch your pretty little backside so you don't get tossed off a building.
Freak identity politics has a downside in the real world....
I have Kelsey Seybold Advantage here in Houston through Medicare. On forms there is a place to check that asks for *Gender At Birth”.
I guess the preliminary identification, at least, would be male or female, because recovery crews would be using the outdated “gender assigned at birth” criteria. The confusion would come later, in matching up a set of parts with a non-binary ID. The good news is that non-binaries amount to 0.1% of the population, so unless a plane crashes on the way to or from a non-binary convention or something, there will never be many on board at once.
Lol... Let’s see what TSA has to say about that.
There are two genders. It’s fairly straightforward.
So the staff will surely make sure to get familiar and call everyone by their first names to avoid formal forms of address. Airlines can distribute big Ms, Mrs. Miss, Mr., Master, and NG (no gender), NB (non-binary) necklace tags that passengers will pick on at the terminal or print at home. How secure we can feel knowing that airlines will be wasting resources and focus for sheer nonsense.
Agreed.
Why insist on a gender declaration at all?
So maybe I will use X because its really not their business.
Gender 1, 2 et al...coming soon to a pervert New World Order outpost near you....
The problem with a mass neurosis is that it’s contagious.
When the plane crashes, it’ll make it harder to identify the remains.
I haven’t flown since 2014, but I don’t recall anything on a plane that was “gendered” either. This is bizarre.
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