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#is this or is this not seb moran #in the perfect suit jim bought him because ‘i know public school taught you how to dress darling’ #a tie pin because you don’t want a two hundred pound tie to get in the way when you’re trying to knife a bastard #leather gloves because evidence? what evidence #and because jim likes how they feel around his neck #but seb doesn’t like admitting to that #and you just know that cigarette case is engraved #’cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war’ #there’s still a bit of scruff on his face though #because you can take the game hunter out of the… well you know the rest #he’s got to go anyway #there’s some fucking uppity russians to kill #and jim’s laughing in his earpiece because he knows exactly what seb’s going to do with that tie later #god i ship the fuck out of these nasty bastards
oh my god those tags.
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(Source: lawyerupasshole)
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Aroon left this photo in our inbox with this note:
“I was traveling in southern Ethiopia last month and met this family that was proud of wearing a Obama T-shirt that I felt I had to share.”
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Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada »
The shit hit the fan in the trans blogosphere last night, when it came to light that there is a disturbing new section in the Identity Screening Regulations used in airports throughout Canada. Simply put, Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada.
The offending section of the regulations reads:
5.2 (1) An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if …
(c) the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents;Although this obviously discriminatory smear of regulation did not come to significant public attention until very recently, it apparently came into effect on July 27th, 2011.
It is important to note that these regulations are not actually a piece of legislation, which would have had to pass through readings and votes in the House and Senate (which is probably why it went unnoticed until now). Rather, the Identity Screening Regulations are a set of rules implemented unilaterally by the Ministry of Transportation, as part of Canada’s so-called Passenger Protect, which is essentially the Canadian Federal Government’s equivalent to the U.S.’s “no-fly” list.
Minister of Transportation Denis Lebel is, of course, a federal Conservative MP appointed to the cabinet position by Stephen Harper.
So what does this mean? Well, in order to change the ‘sex’ designation on a Canadian Passport, the federal government requires proof that surgery has taken place, or will take place within one year. So for non-operative transgender persons, for gender nonconforming (genderqueer) persons, and for the vast majority of pre-operative transsexual persons, it is literally impossible to obtain proper travel documentation marked with the sex designation which “matches” the gender identity in which they live.
In the eyes of the honourable Minister of Transportation, that makes trans people unfit to fly in Canada.
It is interesting to note that this regulatory adjustment occurred immediately following the federal election in 2011. In the previous parliament, Bill C-389, a bill to amend the Human Rights Code to explicitly enshrine protections against discrimination for transgender people, had successfully passed in the House of Commons, only to die on the Senate floor when Harper declared a Federal Election (thereby dissolving parliament).
Is the timing of this disturbing and blatantly discriminatory regulatory adjustment merely a coincidence? That is up to you to decide. However, the negative impact on trans people is crystal clear, and we need to take action now.
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it’s moving.
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