She had her hearing ear dog with her but just ignored its signal barks! That’s why the dog wasn’t kicked off the plane because those involved saw it was trying to do its job and didn’t deserve to miss its flight.
The access needs of one group of people shouldn’t override the needs of another group. Especially not as a blanket policy.
If a person who needs an assistance dog needs to interact with someone who is allergic to dogs (even if that interaction is indirect, such as sharing the same space), this is what disabled folk call “competing access needs”.
There is no simple solution on what to do when this problem arises, because actually building an accessible society requires conversations that go beyond universal guides or protocols. There are often ways to find compromises to make a situation work. Sometimes there aren’t. But the most important first step is for the people who are affected to be able to have a productive conversation about things, because without that, we would be undermining disabled people’s agency and bodily autonomy.
It’s not your place to decide who “really needs” a service dog or not. People who try to gatekeep accessibility resources or reasonable adjustments to people who “really need” them often mean well, because they think that the people who “don’t really need” them undermine access to resources for the “real disabled people”. Unfortunately, that rhetoric ends up shutting out a heckton more “real disabled people” than the people who genuinely don’t really need support.
I think deaf people should be allowed a “hearing ear dog” that can listen for traffic etc for you. And you can bring it anywhere.
She had her hearing ear dog with her but just ignored its signal barks! That’s why the dog wasn’t kicked off the plane because those involved saw it was trying to do its job and didn’t deserve to miss its flight.
There are no cars on airplanes don’t be silly
Bet you feel pretty dumb.
Long before you showed up, buddy!
gg.
How do we know that car isn’t being removed by the TSA?
I like the cut of your jib, head on over to the fuckcars lemmy page and I’ll make you mod.
I was totally being silly 🤪 but it kinda sounds like something someone would try lol
Drive-thru airport! Park your stupid truck in first class!
Service dogs should be limited to people who really need them because they conflict with people who have dog allergies.
The access needs of one group of people shouldn’t override the needs of another group. Especially not as a blanket policy.
If a person who needs an assistance dog needs to interact with someone who is allergic to dogs (even if that interaction is indirect, such as sharing the same space), this is what disabled folk call “competing access needs”.
There is no simple solution on what to do when this problem arises, because actually building an accessible society requires conversations that go beyond universal guides or protocols. There are often ways to find compromises to make a situation work. Sometimes there aren’t. But the most important first step is for the people who are affected to be able to have a productive conversation about things, because without that, we would be undermining disabled people’s agency and bodily autonomy.
It’s not your place to decide who “really needs” a service dog or not. People who try to gatekeep accessibility resources or reasonable adjustments to people who “really need” them often mean well, because they think that the people who “don’t really need” them undermine access to resources for the “real disabled people”. Unfortunately, that rhetoric ends up shutting out a heckton more “real disabled people” than the people who genuinely don’t really need support.
That’s easy to solve. We just give them an allergy service dog that warns about potential allergens and chases them away if needed.
Training program involves treats attached to the dogs’ tails.
That’s disablist doggism!
Some breeds are hypoallergenic.
Hypo is does not mean they don’t trigger allergies. Just less.
Do you think those should be required?
Many of them already are used as service animals.
Very few
Do you think people who don’t need them should be allowed hyperallergenic dogs in an airplane?