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Transgender woman details ordeal TSA put her through...after bodyscanner picked up her 'anomaly'
Daily Mail UK ^

Posted on 09/22/2015 3:20:11 PM PDT by matt04

A transgender woman has described how she was kept in airport security because TSA agents questioned why an 'anomaly' was picked up on the bodyscanner .

Shadi Petosky was preparing to board a flight from Orlando International Airport on Monday when she was held up after going through the female line.

The writer and producer was then questioned by a TSA agent and told she would have be run through as a man, otherwise there would be a 'problem'.

The frequent flyer, who claims she has never experienced problems at airport security before, then began tweeting about her ordeal which made her miss her American Airlines flight.

Despite her complaints, the government agency has insisted the staff member followed strict guidelines.

She told NBC News: 'I stepped into the full body scanner, the TSA agent looked at me and pressed the F button. The scanner picked up an "anomaly" in my crotch area.'

'I said, "I'm transgender. That's my penis,". The TSA officer then said something like, 'If you are a man, then go back in the machine and we'll run you as a man'.'

However she told the agent: 'I'm transgender. I am a woman, but I have an atrophied penis, trying to make it kind of not a big deal.'

According to Petosky, the TSA officer replied: 'If you don't want to be run as a man, we'll have to search you. Are you a man or a woman?'

The agent then asked her whether she wanted to be patted down by a man or a woman, causing Petosky to 'freeze'.

She said she didn't want to make a woman touch her groin area but felt uncomfortable if a man performed the search.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anatomy101; anomalies; euthanasia; freak; freakshow; transgender; tsa
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Full title: Transgender woman details ordeal TSA put her through after she went through the female line and the bodyscanner picked up her 'anomaly'


1 posted on 09/22/2015 3:20:11 PM PDT by matt04
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Stupid freak.


2 posted on 09/22/2015 3:21:58 PM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: matt04

Work, work, work.

This is juuust the beginning.


3 posted on 09/22/2015 3:22:25 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: matt04

For once, I have to agree with the TSA. If you show up at a check point looking like a female, you get treated like one. It is not the TSA’s problem you can’t decide what gender you “feel” like you are.


4 posted on 09/22/2015 3:22:32 PM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

From now on, all transgenders and gays generally, as well as Muslims in burqas, can just go through the line unscanned. Only elderly white Christian heterosexuals will get hassled.


5 posted on 09/22/2015 3:23:34 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: matt04

Jees...


6 posted on 09/22/2015 3:24:41 PM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: matt04

7 posted on 09/22/2015 3:25:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: matt04

The correct pronoun is “it”


8 posted on 09/22/2015 3:25:53 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The 17th Amendment was the beginning of the end. The end was the 19th ;) Thank God for the 21st!)
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"Go back in the machine and we'll run you as a man."

Remember Frankie Valli? "Walk like a man, talk like a man...." Today's earworm!
9 posted on 09/22/2015 3:26:01 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: matt04

I have a friend who is a TSA baggage screener; I will have to ask her what the heck she would be supposed to do in a similar situation. Aside from trying not to burst into howling laughter, obviously.


10 posted on 09/22/2015 3:27:34 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi, Mister Prez.)
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To: matt04
Nut up, as they say... We all have our issues with TSA.

-PJ

11 posted on 09/22/2015 3:28:42 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: matt04

Well, the deviants kept at us for years and finally broke through. Brave new world. Thanks, freaks.


12 posted on 09/22/2015 3:31:23 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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13 posted on 09/22/2015 3:31:32 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: freedumb2003
The correct pronoun is “it”

I agree: *he, *she, *it. Or, more accurately: *he, *she, *defying God, as that rapper pointed out recently.

14 posted on 09/22/2015 3:32:36 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Genoa
Remember Frankie Valli? "Walk like a man, talk like a man...."

Sing like a woman.........yeah I remember Frankie. I don't think It should have expected anything else when the scanner shows a supposed woman trying to sneak a small sausage shaped object onto an aircraft.

15 posted on 09/22/2015 3:37:27 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: matt04

I have no pity for mental cases of their own accord. Live with your fantasy.


16 posted on 09/22/2015 3:37:27 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: freedumb2003

It’s zhe.


17 posted on 09/22/2015 3:37:39 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: matt04

Those wiggly little anomalies just get in the way. Then chop ‘em off.

TSA are, hmmn?, what are they? bigots racists, homophobes. Is there even a label for them? LOL


18 posted on 09/22/2015 3:40:14 PM PDT by dforest
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To: matt04

Maybe they thought that it was a gun and she was happy to see them?


19 posted on 09/22/2015 3:40:25 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: matt04

Freak.


20 posted on 09/22/2015 3:42:10 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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