Transgender riders seek justice from SEPTA

[Shana A]

Posted on Mon, Feb. 28, 2011

Transgender riders seek justice from SEPTA

By Dianna Marder
Inquirer Staff Writer

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20110228_Transgender_riders_seek_justice_from_SEPTA.html

Nico Adamor is fighting a policy that's been in place longer than he's been alive.

And though his opponent declared again just last month that it would not budge, Adamor, 28, says he's not quitting either.

The opponent is SEPTA and the issue is the transit agency's use of M for male and F for female stickers on weekly and monthly passes.

[regan]

I can't believe its up to the transit worker (or rather two of them) to decide whether someone's male or female.  Its one the oldest tricks in the book to get your designator changed on your ID "OMG, I just noticed it says M and clearly it should say F" or vice versa and a profusely apologetic clerk.  If that's the case it must actually happen from time to time in the cis world.  What about a deep voiced cis-woman or a high pitched cis-male?  What happens when the wrong designator gets put on their ID. What happens when people gain/lose weight, grow their hair out/cut it short?

Its a stupid and impractical policy...