Posted on 06/11/2017 12:27:45 PM PDT by KeyLargo
June 3, 2017
FAA frowns on pilots having more than one gender in five years
By Ed Straker
The FAA says that it will not automatically award pilot licenses to applicants who have had more than one gender in the past five years. That is, if they have had a “sex change operation” in the past five years, the FAA says they may have to wait before being given a piloting license. They can still apply for a piloting license if they have had their bodies cosmetically rearranged or artificially grown breasts in the past five years, but in that case, they have to fill out a gender dysphoria mental illness form to provide more information. The form, to be filled out by a psychiatrist, asks whether the patient has “mental health concerns,” has ever been in a mental hospital, and has ever tried to kill himself – all good questions to ask about mentally ill people who want to have pilot licenses, wouldn’t you agree?
The form doesn’t indicate what would be disqualifying – if the applicant has mental illness, he might not be automatically denied. Perhaps applicants who have some mental problems would be required to have their psychiatrists ride with them as a co-pilot, or required to take sedatives on long solo flights.
I wanted more information about this, and I found a link on Google for the Transgender Pilot Association, but when I clicked on the link, the site was no longer there. I guess the website, like its owners, had transmuted into something else.
The FAA used to require all transvestites to be examined by psychiatrists, but it recently dropped the requirement, figuring that those who had attempted to switch genders more than five years ago must be stable. Commercial airlines even employ transvestite pilots.
And in other news:
United Express Captain Arrested for Botched Castration of Transgender Woman
by Gary Leff on May 27, 2017
An enterprising director could make a United Pilots Gone Wild! video out of the two who were too drunk to fly, the one that was running brothels all over Houston and the United Express pilot and co-pilot who got into a fight.
Now a Chicago O’Hare-based United Express captain for ExpressJet, the same Express carrier where a flight couldn’t continue because pilots were fighting, has been arrested in a Colorado castration case. And it gets even stranger.
A man charged with using an Army surgical kit to remove the testicles of a transgender woman is an airline captain based at Chicago O’Hare, the I-Team has learned.
James Pennington, 57, was arrested on Thursday by police in Denver, Colorado and charged with suspicion of first degree assault when he allegedly castrated a transgender woman during a makeshift operation in the woman’s apartment.
*yikes*
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