Air Transat: refusing to let trans women fly. Today.

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Air Transat: refusing to let trans women fly. Today.

http://the-orbit.net/teacosy/2016/06/26/air-transat-refusing-let-trans-women-fly-today/

The Orbit/June 26, 2016 By Aoife O'Riordan

"AB Silvera was planning to travel from the UK to Canada early this afternoon to attend a wedding with her girlfriend. Instead, she's spent six hours in the airport and is going back home.

Why?

Because she's trans.

Here, in her words:

The situation is as follows: I am a dual citizen of the Italian Republic and the Republic of Argentina. Today, Air Transat has denied me boarding a flight bound to Toronto, Canada from Glasgow, Scotland."