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Jan 30, 2012 22:57

Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada


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this is why we cant have nice things, canada, transportation, transphobia, lgbtq / gender & sexual minorities

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what. the. fuck. mschaos January 31 2012, 04:00:43 UTC
what gawd damn century are we in????

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mirhanda January 31 2012, 19:39:58 UTC
Seriously! Lately almost everything I read here leaves me feeling like I'm living in Bizarro world! Now Canada, which I always thought of as fairly liberal and welcoming, etc. is doing all this weird stuff. I don't even know!

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minaloush January 31 2012, 04:01:33 UTC
wellllllll...i feel like that's really just stupid phrasing by people who aren't thinking of the consequences of what they say. which is, of course, often the definition of transphobia....but i feel this is likely to be dealt with now that people are bringing it up. so, good for them doing so.

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chaya January 31 2012, 04:02:54 UTC
I'm unsure what you're trying to say here. That they didn't do it on purpose?

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minaloush January 31 2012, 04:25:42 UTC
Well, i waffled while typing it, so...I can understand the confusion. Like, clearly the people writing it live in a super cis-gendered world where the most important thing is stopping mostly-imaginary terrorists, and the concept that there are people who live outside the gender binary didn't occur to them. Which is, in itself, full of privilege and probably a vehicle for some jerk to be transphobic.

But I feel like now that it's been noticed, there will be some sort of correction and so it's good that they noticed that it was fucked up and brought it to the public's attention.

Yeah, I don't know why i commented. I should have just said "yes."

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chaya January 31 2012, 04:28:53 UTC
I hope they change it quickly, but if they do go "Oh! We forgot this whole group of people this will affect and oh dear, let me change this quickly, this absolutely will not do" they will be the first.

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evewithanapple January 31 2012, 04:02:39 UTC
YOU VOTED FOR HIM, FOLKS. Feeling proud of yourselves?

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kalikahuntress January 31 2012, 04:27:45 UTC
I didn't...

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maffinoyobiai January 31 2012, 05:12:50 UTC
Because he actually does stuff. Not saying this is good, just sayin' he got us through bad times.

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romp January 31 2012, 05:50:53 UTC
can you be more specific?

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lilyginny27 January 31 2012, 04:05:06 UTC
It's not that often any more that a news item will literally make me drop my jaw and have my eyebrows ascend in to my hairline. But this. Damn. O_O

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sephystabbity January 31 2012, 04:06:04 UTC
OH FUCK NO. REPOSTING THIS FUCKING EVERYWHERE SO EVERYONE CAN SEE WHAT A FUCKING BASTARD THEY VOTED IN.

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epithetique January 31 2012, 08:55:47 UTC
The people that voted him in probably won't see the injustice in this. ):

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