Lucky ...

Last weekend we went up to sunny Brisbane to see my sister and her boyfriend. I had booked the tickets about 4-5 months ago so I could get them at a lower cost. When I booked the tickets we did not know when Max would be starting T or how long it would take him to pass, so I used the title Ms. (at that stage he had just changed his name so that was ok). A couple of weeks ago I realised this and went to try and fix the title up over the internet, as he has been on T for 4 months now and is passing as male 99.999% of the time. I was unable to change the title, and was getting a little worried about what might happen. We know that legally he is not male, but we just thought it would be easier for the airline staff to see a male with a male title. As I could not change it, we prepared ourselves for a bit of an issue when trying to get on board with our boarding passes. However on the way to the airport I had an idea. My name appears gender neutral, as does Max’s (pseudo name on blog won’t make sense, sorry) and I have a doctorate so my title of Dr. which is also gender neutral. So we swapped boarding passes. I was Ms. and Max had Dr. We were not stopped (nor asked for any ID) both flights. Lucky I have a doctorate and that we both have gender neutral names, as we did not have to disclose to people personal information just to board a plane to see my sister.