Transgender? Don’t Try To Board A Plane In Canada

[SandraJane]

The New Civil Rights Movement


Transgender? Don't Try To Board A Plane In Canada


by Kyle Knight on February 2, 2012

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/transgender-dont-try-to-board-a-plane-in-canada/politics/2012/02/02/33945

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,114847.0.html   Related topic




This week bloggers exposed a regulation passed in July that could effectively bar transgender, transsexual, and gender non-conforming people from boarding airplanes in Canada. While it is still unclear whether the regulations have affected any trans people at the airport, the policy as it is written is disquieting – and asks us to think about how gendered documents affect movement.

[thefire]

M Male
F Female
X Unspecified
E Eunich

Seriously?? What does it matter?? Why is the world so immature? Why do we have to identify ourselves by Penis, Vagina, See For Yourself, or No Penis?!?!?!

[Artemis]

I always wondered why the government even needs to know our sex/gender? Even just biological sex is almost imposible to define in a way that includes everyone as soon as there are millions of people (e.g. ambiguous genitalia, chromosome variations like XXY (either looking more male or more female), XX-male, XY-female, PAIS, etc, etc).

I'm here in the Netherlands? By law everyone is treated the same by law, regardless of sex? This government doesn't even need to know your sex when you are getting married! It's just not relevant. So why do they insist on recording it?
At best, it's only use seems to be to know how to start a letter with either "Geachte heer" [male] or "Geachte mevrouw" [female]. Nothing else.

[Artemis]

M Male
F Female
X Unspecified
E Eunich

I always assumed that "eunich" usually identified as M or X?

Edit: I finally read the article. It does makes sense given the cultural context.