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After traveling with her one-year-old son dozens of times with no problems, Lindsay Gottlieb did not expect to have to prove that she was her son’s mother when trying to board a plane Monday, but that’s exactly what Southwest Airlines asked her to do. Gottlieb is the coach for the University of California at Berkley’s women’s basketball team. She was travelling from Denver to Oakland when she was asked to provide her son’s birth certificate after showing the Southwest employee at the ticket counter his passport. The employee told her that federal law requires that she provide a birth certificate as proof that she is the child’s parent because she and her child have different last names. She tweeted that she was “appalled” at the request and, according to The Washington Post, found it “uncomfortable and hurtful.”