{"id":219287,"date":"2019-06-18T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=219287"},"modified":"2019-06-18T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T12:02:18","slug":"mastercard-to-allow-transgender-people-to-use-chosen-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/18\/mastercard-to-allow-transgender-people-to-use-chosen-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastercard to allow transgender people to use chosen name"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_219288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219288\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/plastic-card-1647376_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219288\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/plastic-card-1647376_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/plastic-card-1647376_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/plastic-card-1647376_1280-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/plastic-card-1647376_1280-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/plastic-card-1647376_1280-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That means that the name on the credit card owned by a transgender person could be different than that found on their birth certificate or driver&#8217;s license. (Pixabay Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Mastercard will allow transgender people to use their chosen names on credit and debit cards in an effort to combat discrimination at the cash register.<\/p>\n<p>That means that the name on the credit card owned by a transgender person could be different than that found on their birth certificate or driver&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n<p>It is up to the banks that issue the cards to actually implement the change and on Monday, Mastercard called on those banks to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Three states \u2014 Tennessee, Kansas and Ohio \u2014 legally bar a transgender person from changing the sex listed on their birth certificate, according to Out Leadership, a LGBT rights organization that focuses on advocacy at the corporate level. This can create confusion when a person uses one name to reflect their identity, but may have a different name legally.<\/p>\n<p>A 2015 study showed that 32% of transgender people who had to show an ID with a name or gender that did not match their presentation experienced harassment, were denied services or were attacked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were alerted to this, we realized we could do something about it,\u201d said Raj Seshadri, president of U.S. issuers for Mastercard.<\/p>\n<p>A transgender person will no longer have to wait to get a legal name change, make changes to their birth certificate or other legal manoeuvrs, Seshadri said. The change of name on a card will not create any security issues, she said, since Mastercard uses other security metrics to determine whether a purchase is legitimate or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Mastercard will allow transgender people to use their chosen names on credit and debit cards in an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":219288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-lifestyle","mauthors-ken-sweet","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219289,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219287\/revisions\/219289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}