Accountability
Woman accuses Delta airlines of discrimination for not selling her a non-gendered ticket
An Arizona woman slammed Delta Air Lines in a series of tweets last week, accusing the company of discrimination because she was unable to buy an “X” ticket in the gender category for her nonbinary child.
Dawn Henry, 52, said she had wanted to buy her 21-year-old a surprise ticket for Christmas when she found that the booking tools only allowed male and female options.
Henry said her child identifies as neither exclusively male nor female, and her child’s birth certificate and Washington state driver’s license have an “X” marker on them.
She wrote in the first of 19 tweets on Thursday that Delta “is discriminating against #nonbinary individuals and not allowing them to fly despite legal ID issued by states that allow X on birth certificates and state-issued IDs.” She added, “This threat is the ongoing saga of me trying to purchase a ticket for my non-binary adult child.”
She continued on to note that the Transportation Security Administration “requires that the boarding pass reservation match your state issued ID. TSA accepts X as a gender marker on state IDs. The problem isn’t with TSA. The problem is with airlines, like @Delta and @AlaskaAir.”
Henry said that the Delta rep with whom she had a phone call to make the reservation “was really trying to help, but she was unable to change the gender designation to X. I explained what TSA had told me about the #nonbinary designation.”
“Gender identity is protected under the Civil Rights Act. How is @Delta’s disparate treatment in refusing to issue a ticket with the correct TSA-required legal #nonbinary gender marker legal?” Henry asked.
The issue comes three years after Delta as well as several other major U.S. airline carriers said they would update their ticketing systems to include nonbinary travelers. American and United already provide an option for nonbinary travelers.
Henry said she would not be taking legal action against Delta. A Delta rep said that adding a nonbinary action is a complicated process requiring several departments, but it reportedly the change will be made sometime this year.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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Just another person ignoring reality and promoting lies. And the “Left” continues to promote this twisted ideology to destroy the family and individuals. The result is more mental issues and abuse as the children enter puberty.
A human is born either a male or female, not counting co-joined twin type conditions, and it is determined by genetics. That is the XX genes make a female and the XY genes make a male. The adult child obviously has mental issues and was undoubtedly abused, in some fashion, as a child. No one is obligated to lie or pretend that a man is a women, or woman is man, or that a person does not have a gender. And gender/sex appearance change operation do not change a person’s gender. The adult child’s birth certificate needs to reflect the adult child’s actual gender.
Sometimes boys like things most girls like, and sometimes girls like things most boys like. It does not alter the gender. It is often a reflection of their upbringing – and interaction with siblings.