{"id":570811,"date":"2021-06-22T16:07:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T20:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570811"},"modified":"2021-06-22T16:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T20:07:39","slug":"aclu-demands-uber-eats-stop-misgendering-and-deadnaming-transgender-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-demands-uber-eats-stop-misgendering-and-deadnaming-transgender-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Demands Uber Eats Stop \u2018Misgendering\u2019 And \u2018Deadnaming\u2019 Transgender Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faclu-demands-uber-eats-stop-misgendering-and-deadnaming-transgender-drivers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570811&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1228102505.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday said it is demanding that Uber Eats stop \u201cmisgendering\u201d and \u201cdeadnaming\u201d its transgender drivers as this causes them to be harassed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are demanding that Uber Eats end its practice of misgendering and deadnaming trans drivers,\u201d the ACLU wrote in a tweet Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing civil liberties law group said that its client Laine Repic, a Kansas-based driver, has \u201cfaced harassment and discrimination\u201d because the Uber Eats app shows the driver\u2019s former name to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Laine has supposedly contacted Uber Eats repeatedly, but Uber\u2019s online food delivery platform has failed to make updates to its app, the ACLU claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU added an exhortation to the Biden administration that President Biden take action to allow transgender individuals to receive a government ID that bears their preferred name and gender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden has the power to prevent this dangerous misgendering on IDs,\u201d the ACLU said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone should have access to an accurate ID,\u201d the ACLU added. \u201cWe\u2019re asking the Biden administration to lead and issue an executive order so that trans, non-binary and intersex people can have IDs that reflect who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.1268656716418\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: We are demanding that Uber Eats end its practice of misgendering and deadnaming trans drivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ACLU (@ACLU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACLU\/status\/1407386079729160194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The group pointed to its petition urging President Biden to sign an executive order directing all federal agencies to allow transgender people to \u201cself-verify our own gender and to include a gender-neutral \u2018X\u2019 designation option on all federal IDs and records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrans, intersex, and non-binary people still do not have access to accurate federal IDs,\u201d the ACLU said in the introduction to the petition. \u201cThis reality puts too many of us \u2013 particularly trans people of color and especially Black trans people \u2013 at risk of daily discrimination because our identification doesn\u2019t reflect who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU has previously done extensive work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/press-releases\/aclu-comment-dismissal-challenge-connecticut-policy-allowing-trans-student-athletes\">defending<\/a> transgender clients, including transgender students who desire to compete against athletes of the sex that matches their gender identity. The group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/lgbtq-rights\/the-coordinated-attack-on-trans-student-athletes\/\">said<\/a> there is a \u201ccoordinated attack\u201d on transgender student athletes.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time Uber has found itself in a controversy related to transgender drivers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, some transgender drivers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/08\/08\/transgender-uber-driver-suspended-tech-oversight-facial-recognition.html\">found<\/a> that their accounts had been temporarily or permanently suspended due to an identity verification feature. Drivers must take a photo of themselves to verify their identity, and if the photo fails to match other photos of the driver on file, the discrepancy will be flagged.<\/p>\n<p>Uber has previously expressed its support for LGBT people and outlined some of the actions the company is already doing to be more inclusive towards transgender people, including including \u201ctransgender services for our employees to support their transgender journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUber believes that everyone has the right to move freely, safely, and without fear. And that, not only in the month of June but year-round, everyone has a right to pride,\u201d Uber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uber.com\/us\/en\/pride\/\">said<\/a> in a statement for Pride Month, which is celebrated in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cmln__paragraph\">\u201cThis year, we\u2019re committing to helping empower a better experience for our LGBTQIA+ community, and particularly the transgender community,\u201d Uber said.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday said it is demanding that Uber Eats stop \u201cmisgendering\u201d and \u201cdeadnaming\u201d its transgender drivers as this causes them to be harassed.\u201cWe are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281012,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1228102505.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"ACLU Demands Uber Eats Stop \u2018Misgendering\u2019 And \u2018Deadnaming\u2019 Transgender Drivers","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1228102505.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"ACLU Demands Uber Eats Stop \u2018Misgendering\u2019 And \u2018Deadnaming\u2019 Transgender Drivers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}