Dawn Henry, 52, is claiming that Delta Airline’s lack of gender options while choosing plane tickets is a “discriminating” practice that prevents her from buying her 21-year-old child a plane ticket.
Taking to Twitter to air her grievances to the world, Henry lamented that the airline is somehow “not allowing” nonbinary people to fly because it forces them to choose a gender with which they don’t identify. The gender designator on the ticket must match with the form of identification used to fly (usually a passport and/or state-issued ID such as a driver’s license) or the Transportation Security Agency may not allow the person to fly. This, Henry says, is the crux of her argument.
@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. This thread is the ongoing saga of me trying to purchase a ticket for my non-binary adult child. 1/x
— ⚖️Aurora Dawn⚖️ 💪🏻🌊🌈💜 (@truth_trumps) January 6, 2022
I first discovered this problem when trying to make an online reservation to buy a ticket as a Christmas present for my #nonbinary adult child. The only gender options in @Delta and @AlaskaAir online reservation systems is male or female. 3/x #LGBTQ
— Aurora Dawn 🐀 (@truth_trumps) January 6, 2022
She details her entire experience with trying to get an “X” gender marker on her child’s ticket, but was no match for Delta’s policy.
Today I called @Delta to make the reservation. The rep who answered my call 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. I was put on hold. 5/x #LGBTQ
— Aurora Dawn 🐀 (@truth_trumps) January 6, 2022
After some time on hold, a @Delta supervisor in Atlanta came on the line and told me that their system only uses male/female and I can only use one of those. I explained again that my adult child is #nonbinary and #LGBTQ and their ID is X and TSA requires them to match. 7/x
— Aurora Dawn 🐀 (@truth_trumps) January 6, 2022
She said no, I’m not saying that, it’s just the policy at @Delta. I pointed out it has that effect if TSA requires matching documents and there’s no way to buy a ticket with a gender that matches the state-issued #nonbinary gender on the ID. #LGBTQ 9/x
— Aurora Dawn 🐀 (@truth_trumps) January 6, 2022
I was upset by this point (not yelling, just super frustrated and in disbelief) and the @Delta supervisor was clearly not going to help in any form (and was shouting over me) so I hung up. So I still have no airline ticket for my #nonbinary adult child. #LGBTQ 11/x
— Aurora Dawn 🐀 (@truth_trumps) January 6, 2022
She keeps mentioning that her child isn’t being “allowed to fly” based on gender.
And even if I could find an airline that would issue a ticket with the correct X gender, @Delta was the least expensive. Why should a #nonbinary #LGBTQ person have to pay MORE in order to be allowed to fly? 13/x
— Aurora Dawn 🐀 (@truth_trumps) January 6, 2022
The thread continues to rail against Delta for their “discrimination,” but not all Twitter users were on board with bashing the airline:
If ‘they’ wanted a seat bad enough, just pick any choice. Seems to me that they wanted attention more than a seat 🤷♂️🙄
— OregonAgb98 (@OregonAgb98) January 10, 2022
Ya should of just marked one ,who cares that’s a family issue
— Vincent j Pierce jr (@VinnyP10022) January 10, 2022
Just pick one and move on 🤷🏾♂️ It ain’t that serious and I’m sure the airlines nor anyone cares what people identify as.
— αℓт ωσяℓ∂ яנ 🏋🏾♂️💪🏾🐊 (@GatorGrad929) January 11, 2022
Hello mother your child is either a male or female. What was the child born as? Boom! that’s what you put on the option to buy your plane ticket.
— James Stephens (@Jamesw74) January 11, 2022
Just book the damn seat, you don’t have to make an issue of everything
— anyoneforbaileys 💙 (@DavidBailey1975) January 10, 2022
These stories make my ass tired.
— Larry BeSaw (@lbesaw847) January 11, 2022
They’re bound and determined to keep giving Dave Chapelle material, aren’t they?
— Cephandrius (@Pqlyur1) January 11, 2022
With all that is going on in the world . . . .
— gaynorroberts (@gaynorroberts6) January 11, 2022
— Chad M. Minor (@chad_minor1) January 10, 2022
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