Upon discovering the NGPA, many people feel as if they have found where they belong.
That's because the NGPA is about community.
We are a home for LGBTQ people with a love for aviation; we are a vehicle that connects those with shared passions. We invite you to join our family and connect with people from many different backgrounds, all of whom have found a shared home at NGPA.
The Transgender & Non-binary Committee exists to build, support, and unite gender-diverse members as part of the greater LGBTQ aviation community worldwide.
We will achieve this mission via three main goals:
CREATE a hub of resources, best practices, and educational material for our membership.
ADVOCATE for progress to government bodies, industry leaders, and general aviation communities on behalf of transgender and non-binary people in aviation.
PROVIDE confidential support and foster a community for peer-to-peer mutual support for gender-diverse members of NGPA.
The NGPA Trans & Nonbinary Committee is actively working on several initiatives to create a safer, more inclusive aviation industry for Trans people. Our top advocacy goals are:
Ensuring the 2016 Gender Dysphoria guidelines that were formerly hosted in the Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners are re-hosted and protected.
Further streamlining the FAA medical issuance process for Transgender people that are undergoing gender-affirming care.
Advocating for insurance coverage of transition care as a standard of inclusiveness in benefits for top industry employers.
Ensuring that aviation workers are able to designate chosen names and pronouns at work without updating their ID documents.
Establishing Uniform Policy Best Practices to help airlines update outdated uniform policies.
Every year, typically mid-April, the NGPA Transgender and Nonbinary Committee host our Transgender Social. The NGPA Transgender Social is an annual event for our Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-diverse members, as well as their partners. This event is a space to share community with one another, to safely play and experiment with gender, and to build out your support system. The Transgender Social includes planned dinners: one with the local NGPA chapter in our host city, and a private dinner function just for us. The weekend will also feature planned group activities, as well as free time during the day and night to explore the host city and experience its queer scene. Come make new, lifelong friends, get plugged into resources, share your experiences, and learn from the experiences of your Trans siblings.
We are also excited to host and maintain a Discord Community Server for our gender diverse NGPA members. Click here to join the server and get connected to the community!
The NGPA’s Transgender & Non-binary Committee is also dedicated to providing confidential support via our inbox at [email protected].
The NGPA Transgender & Non-binary Committee is aware of the recent removal of the Gender Dysphoria section under the FAA webpage’s version of the Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners. There was fear that this represented a change in how pilots who undergo gender affirming care would be processed, but the process is still intact in the full 800+ page AME Guide document. Furthermore, we have confirmed that applications are still being processed as normal, and there are no plans at all by the FAA’s Aeromedical team to allow removal of “DEI” language to change how applicants are processed. For further support and information, please contact [email protected].
Trans-friendly AME List
NGPA Cares
Free, confidential mental health referrals and guidance available here.
For NGPA Transgender membership support
Contact [email protected]
Kori Necker is a First Officer on the Airbus 320 family for Delta Air Lines, based out of Seattle. They are active in their local NGPA chapter, The Cascade Flyers, and have held membership and worked within several gender diversity support groups and mutual aid cooperatives in the Tacoma area. She joined the NPGA in 2018.
Kori has over a decade of aviation experience, also originally starting with Delta Air Lines, where they worked as Flight Attendant. She began flight training in 2014 and flew the Embraer 175 for SkyWest Airlines before moving on to Alaska Airlines in July of 2022, and then finally Delta again in April 2023.
Kori Necker (they/she)
Co-Chair, Trans & Nonbinary Committee
[email protected]
Parker has been an NGPA member since 2015. She is also a regular contributor to, NGPA’s Contrails Magazine. Over their tenure with NGPA, Parker has volunteered in numerous other capacities as well.
Parker is a Flight Dispatcher and Operations Manager for United Airlines. She has breadth of industry experience from her tenures at Delta Airlines, Compass Airlines, and Republic Airways. Parker also held several other positions and internships with Part 61 and Part 135 operators. Parker holds a Commercial Pilot Certificate with multi-engine and instrument ratings, in addition to her Aircraft Dispatcher Certificate.
Parker graduated from Purdue University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Professional Flight Technology and a Minor in LGBT Studies. While at Purdue, they founded the Purdue University chapter of NGPA and held leadership roles in several other LGBT and aviation student organizations.
Parker Lilly Wilson (she/they)
Co-Chair, Trans & Nonbinary Committee
[email protected]