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Sometimes that's the case, but 100% of the time? There's never any reason to establish someone's identity? Yeah, some people find it difficult to get one, but I don't see any way a movie theatre would benefit from intentionally excluding those people. Probably they're mostly too broke to go to the movies anyway.
It's a lot more likely the theatre is struggling financially and has incompetent management that thinks people abusing the passes is somehow the cause of their financial woes.
Most instances of things like this aren't malice, but rather a lack of knowledge and empathy about how it affects minorities. It's still shitty, the manager should've made an exception, but that doesn't mean the policy or this action was done out of malice.
IMO the real problem in this situation is that it's such a hardship for that woman to get an ID with a name she feels comfortable using that she hasn't done so already. The theater is being dumb and carelessly harming people, but asking for ID isn't some generally horrible act. I personally had no idea changing your name was so difficult and expensive until this conversation, so I imagine the vast majority of people don't know it either.
There's not fraud in the sense that would ever be legally prosecuted, but it's certainly "deception for financial gain" to share a subscription meant for a single person. I agree with you that this isn't helping them, they've brought it on themselves by pricing the subscription in a way that it's not profitable for people to actually use it fully despite the limits they've put on it. It's a normal and reasonable thing to sell a subscription service meant to be used by a single person though.
IDK if anybody remembers this or was even aware of it, but the subscription thing was originally done by a third party. You could spend a flat monthly fee to see as many movies as you wanted, and even though the third party was presumably buying the tickets at full price (because how could they possibly force the theatre to give them discounted tickets?), all the theaters completely lost their shit over it and did everything in their power to prevent people from using it. IIRC it eventually shuttered on its own because it wasn't profitable at a price point people were willing to pay, then theaters all implemented their own version of it... Despite the fact that it hadn't even been successful. So it's even more stupid they couldn't foresee the financial problems with the program and are resorting to ID checks.
AMC isn't in my area, but half the time when I go to Regal, there isn't even anybody making sure you have a ticket at all. Even if there is, it's usually trivial to get past them without showing a ticket. I wonder if all of AMC is so anal about it or if it's one rogue dipshit manager.
I don't believe this to be generally true. The vast majority of people would be horrified by any child killing themselves, regardless of whether they're trans. They just don't believe the policy will lead to that. Obviously that position is wrong and incredibly harmful, but they're mostly thinking "if we hammer home the message that you should accept your body as it is, they'll grow out of it and be fine." The average person doesn't know much, if anything, about being trans. They don't realize it's different from being uncomfortable with your weight or your height or things like that.Correct. Genocide is the point; trans folk succumbing to suicide just speeds up the process as far as they're concerned.
I'm not making excuses for them. It's completely inexcusable for legislators to not be informed on a topic before legislating, and especially anybody in politics must've surely at least heard that suicide is a risk of policies like this. It's unconscionable to play with people's lives like that without seriously considering the possible consequences. I'm only saying this because when we start with the mindset of "the cruelty is the point", it becomes an intractable situation. Most people would have a different position if reality could penetrate their thick skulls. Not all people unfortunately, but most are not out to see trans people dead, they are just dangerously ignorant. That's a problem that can be fixed more easily than hatred.
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