For Those Of You Who Are Traveling This Holiday…Have A Safe Journey

Those of you who are trans, this word from the NTCE,

Know Your Rights
Information on air travel for transgender people
You have the right to:

• Travel in any gender you wish, whether or not it matches the gender marker on your identification. However, at the airport, you must present an ID with the same gender marker as the one that you provided to your airline when you made the reservation.
• Refuse the Whole Body Imaging but then you will be required to undergo and enhanced pat-down (see below for more information);
• Be screened in private;
• Take a traveling companion with you if you are taken for private or additional screening;
• Be patted down by a TSA agent who is the same gender as the gender you are presenting (if you are presenting as female, you will be patted down by a woman; if you are presenting as male, you will be patted down by a man);
• Request a supervisor to assist with your situation;
• Bind or wear breast forms, packers, wigs or hair pieces, or other prosthetic items (although these may trigger additional screening);
• Travel without any documentation from your doctor; however, the TSA suggests that transgender travelers carry a letter from their doctor.

In addition, their web-site has other information and tips for traveling this holiday.

Be safe.