Re: this.
Dan Savage does occasionally give lip-service to the idea of not discriminating against people based on their size and weight. But at the same time, he comes back again and again to statements that are not backed up by evidence, such as:
And if Ms. English—a 400 hundred pound woman—stops eating drive-through garbage, starts [...]

The policy may be more inclusive than I first interpreted. According to the Canadian Transport Agency website,
“For persons disabled by obesity, the Agency cites the practical experience of Southwest Airlines, which screens for entitlement to an additional seat by determining whether a person can lower the seat’s armrests.”
This makes it sound like the status of [...]

The Canadian Transport Agency has declared a “One Person, One Fare” policy to apply to Canadian airlines. Unfortunately, it only applies to the disabled, including those who are “functionally disabled by obesity.”
While I am glad they have taken this step (obviously. There’s no way disabled people should be charged more for airfare if their [...]