1. After being blocked from traveling in an airport with her drivers license, transgender rights trailblazer Miss Major issues a dire warning on encroachments to transgender rights. Read S. Baum's latest piece here. Subscribe to support our journalism. - ThreadSky

erininthemorning.com • 19 hours ago

1. After being blocked from traveling in an airport with her drivers license, transgender rights trailblazer Miss Major issues a dire warning on encroachments to transgender rights.

Read S. Baum's latest piece here.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

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renee-rocket.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I'm confused. TSA says their ppl weren't involved, so what "officials" are we talking about here. Airport administration? Airport police? A gate agent? Surely she got a name or a title.
Without that information it's too easy for people to blow this off as a hoax that was merely done for attention.

syyyyyyyyy.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I was wondering about this but then I realized they probably just lied.

renee-rocket.bsky.social•9 hours ago

They who, the TSA?

syyyyyyyyy.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yes. ACAB, after all.

ladyjadyn.bsky.social•17 hours ago

after my bottom surgery i had to board the plane alone, in incredible pain, since they didn't let my best friend board. they cited she didn't look like her photo ID ('cause trans) but it was v close.

this shit has never stopped happening.

ladyjadyn.bsky.social•17 hours ago

they let me board somehow even though i was more visibly trans too like wtf

jonathanmlewis.bsky.social•18 hours ago

They are dehumanizing the groups they plan on persecuting.....

nadiawithaboringj.bsky.social•11 hours ago

We're well past the planning stages of persecuting the Trans community.

smallestpanda.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I flew out of PWM yesterday and had no issues with an F gender marker other than the usual weird patdown

sevangelistany.bsky.social•11 hours ago

“Freedom” caucus

bain8renn.bsky.social•18 hours ago

clearly this nation learned nothing from stonewall

ladyjadyn.bsky.social•14 hours ago

or WWII
or the civil war

princesspotion.bsky.social•14 hours ago

That we're at this point in the oppression of trans peoples...

erininthemorning.com•19 hours ago

2. In a series of Facebook videos posted last week, Stonewall veteran and trans rights revolutionary Miss Major Griffin-Gracy said her ID with an “X” gender marker was rejected by officials at an Arkansas airport. She said she was eventually able to board with her passport, which read "male."

erininthemorning.com•19 hours ago

3. “The only reason that I got on the plane was because I happened to have my passport with me and my passport is ‘male,’” she said. “Looking like this—male.”

erininthemorning.com•19 hours ago

4. As per current laws and TSA policies, a passport is not required to board domestic flights. But, Major warns, her “way of expressing gender” resulted in increased scrutiny.

erininthemorning.com•19 hours ago

5. “That is clear under federal policy. The U.S. State Department explicitly states that passports with an ‘X’ marker remain valid,” ACLU said. “We stand with Miss Major and everyone facing these unnecessary barriers."

erininthemorning.com•19 hours ago

6. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that all newly-issued passports should reflect a person’s sex assigned at birth, among other far-reaching anti-trans measures. It’s caused chaos and confusion across the country.

erininthemorning.com•19 hours ago

7. Such policies are also widely impacting married women—regardless of sexual orientation, gender expression, or gender assigned at birth—due to snafus caused by the changing of their last name, which has hindered some from obtaining REAL IDs or voting.

grumpymailman.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I'd like to hear the airlines speak up

misst369.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I knew yeeears ago that this trans airport drama was coming - I could “see” it slowly transpiring!

That’s why I stopped flying, I only use my regular driver’s license, I’m not getting a “real” ID, and I drive to my destination/s.

I refuse to participate in the harassment and discrimination!

👸🏻🏳️‍⚧️

misst369.bsky.social•11 hours ago

…and yes, my driver’s license says ‘Female’ on it.

ghost-lee.bsky.social•18 hours ago

“We’ll make sure that they don’t stop you” 🥺 Queen

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