The changes to airline screening regulations have gotten a lot of attention for their impact on transgender people. The problematic change in wording states an air carrier shall not transport a passenger who "does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents."
But in all the (rightful) focus on the impact of this change on transgendered people, there's one question I haven't seen asked yet:
Why are they making this rule in the first place?
Impersonating someone else and using fake ID is already against the rules, so introducing the gender rule doesn't add anything.
Logically, the gender rule sounds like it's intended to prevent people from getting through security by pretending to be someone of another gender. But that sort of ploy would only work if they weren't screening people of all genders. If that's the problem, what they need to do is screen people of all genders properly.
The new rule contributes nothing, and I'm really curious how it managed to get through the extensive legislation scrutiny process.
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