From: Annie (pinkfest@pinkmyst.com)
Date: Fri Jul 03 2009 - 12:59:13 CDT
>(including the other on-line group that started this controversy)
Maybe you can answer this, which is still very hazy in my mind ...
Is this due to a recent (meaning recently in 2009) report of
admission denial at Hunters or is this a recycling of the report
which came out in 2007?
>Now as has been posted there is a clause in the cook county
>ordinance that states that if an ID is required then it must
>match the persona of the person presenting it.
Something here is not passing the smell test.
For something far more serious in nature, the DHS has very
similar verbiage in their instructions to airline ticket agents
and officers who staff checkpoints.
I have yet to hear of a case (since 2005 or so) where a
TG, flying in the mode opposite that on the ID, was refused
boarding.
It's universally the case at airports. If the image on the ID
is a recognizable likeness of the person presenting the ID,
boarding is permitted. Same for every other bar I'm aware of,
even those which Card Hard<tm>, and other case where an ID is
requested, such as the places which ask for IDs when using a
credit card.
>By the letter of the law if your ID shows a male person and
>yor trying to get into anyplace in cook county requiring ID's
>then you can be denied.
Do you or anybody have a reference to this exact statute? It
might be interesting to see exactly how it is worded.
The thing is, though, we don't hear reports of TGs being
denied admission to other bars and clubs in Cook County
where this ordinance is supposedly in effect, only Hunters.
The big unanswered question in this thread is the actual age
of the report. Is this fresh and current information, or is
this a stale report of what happened in 2007?
If it's a recycled report of a long-gone incident, we can
dismiss it as netlore and move on. If it's fresh information
about a recent incident, then we may have something to be
concerned about.
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