PA Transit Company Doesn't Think Outing Transgender Riders is a Big Deal
by Tom Basgil Jr. · May 05, 2011
https://news.change.org/stories/pa-transit-company-doesnt-think-outing-transgender-riders-is-a-big-dealWilliam Penn wanted Philadelphia to be a mecca for tolerance. The city's name even translates to "brotherly love." The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) has decided that this love shouldn't extend to gender non-conforming and transgender citizens. SEPTA's current gender-identity policy involves a mixture of singing "la, la, la, la!" and wearing earplugs.
If you haven't been following
Change.org's posts on SEPTA, the transit company currently requires its monthly transpasses and trailpasses to be marked with M or F stickers denoting a passenger's gender identity. To add further insult to injury, SEPTA recently stopped all debate about the policy at the board level, silencing discussions between many of those with the power to change the policy. About three months ago, a
Change.org petition was started to stop SEPTA from discriminating against transgender and gender non-conforming transit riders. So far, SEPTA is ignoring our emails.
