Woman claims her family were kicked off plane for misgendering flight attendant

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A woman claims that she, her 16-month-old son and her mother were prevented from flying with United Airlines because she misgendered a flight attendant before boarding.

Woman claims she, her toddler son and mother were kicked off United Airlines plane for misgendering flight attendant

"I was speaking to one of the flight attendants, got their pronouns wrong, the other flight attendant didn’t like it," Longoria claimed."I was holding my son, he was having a temper tantrum, I had the car seat on my back. I wasn’t really focusing on anything except getting my son’s car seat on the flight and getting him comfortable," Longoria said.

United neither confirmed nor denied that Longoria and her family were kicked off because she had supposedly misgendered one of the flight attendants. "I said, ‘look, I don’t know. He, she, they, I'm not versed in my pronouns, can you help me with my son?' And he said, ‘ma'am, you’re going to have to step off the plane," Longoria said."He made me stand at the front of the plane, and said assistance would be coming for me."

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