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bloodsexandtea:

oppressionisyucky:

boobsanderson:

Sec 5.2(1)(c) of the ID screening regs of Aeronautics Act: “An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents.”

Canada, you’re disappointing me. Additionally, I think it is of note that this has way more to do with passing privilege than pre/non-op (though for some people that does make passing as cis more frequent), though another example of this going poorly I can think of is someone on hormones who doesn’t have their identification changed. I don’t know why it can’t just be, if you in general look like your picture on your ID (or have some paperwork explaining why you don’t).

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Not even just trans people, but anyone who doesn’t present their sex convincingly, whether by design or by nature.

Heck, it might be politically incorrect to point out, but some insulated people have difficulty determining sexes across racial lines.

Then there are people who fall in an ambiguous place on the sex line anyway. They might be legally defined as one sex or the other, depending on various biological aspects, but those may or may not include their secondary characteristics.

In many people, advanced age makes sex more visually ambiguous.

Some people have hormonal disorders that prevent the absorption of hormones during puberty, leading to the stunted or completely halted development of adult characteristics that we use to judge “sex”.

Some people just say “screw it” to the traditional gender presentation of their culture, and when you take a lot of those arbitrary things away, the line between a masculine and feminine appearance grows very thin indeed for a slew of people.

Trans, genderqueer, just-not-that-obvious, intersexed, very old, very young—whatever the reason that you are not obviously the gender listed on your ID, you should be horrified at this law. It doesn’t just discriminate against an obvious few: it forces all of us to live in and strive to accommodate a binary world. That is not only Not Okay, it’s frankly depressing.

The fact that we list sex on people’s IDs is disturbing, Orwellian, and misguided to begin with. Honestly, it’s a bit sick. We should be taking a step forward to have this archaic practice removed, not backwards to laws like this.