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@OliLondonTV Israeli Police and security officers have changed their policy for searching transgender persons. The previous policy gave trans people who had not fully transitioned the option of choosing whether a male or female officer searched them during security checks. However, now male officers will search male body parts and female officers will search female body parts. Those that have fully transitioned will still be able to request male or female depending on their preference. An Israeli police spokesperson explained the policy: “If a male is undergoing a sex change, or the opposite, and the process hasn’t been completed, a...

Brandy Hamilton, 26, and Alexandria Randle, 24, say their civil rights were violated by the invasive search Texas Department of Public Safety trooper ordered the body cavity search because he smelled marijuana and allegedly found the end of a blunt The women say that the female trooper used the same glove to search inside both of them ============= Disturbing video shows two women in bikinis being subjected to body cavity searches on the side of a Texas highway after they were stopped returning from a weekend at the beach. Brandy Hamilton, 26, and Alexandria Randle, 24, are suing the Texas...

AUSTIN, TX -- The Texas House passed a bill that would make it a criminal offense for public servants to inappropriately touch travelers during airport security pat-downs. Approved late Thursday night, the measure makes it illegal for anyone conducting searches to touch "the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person" including through clothing. It also prohibits searches "that would be offensive to a reasonable person." The bill's chief sponsor is Republican Rep. David Simpson, who said, "this has to do with dignity and travel, and prohibiting indecent, groping searches." He believes it will keep Transportation Security Administration officials...

Airport passenger screening measures have become a touchy issue in the U.S. in the past week, but in the past year the controversial measures have detected more than 130 prohibited, illegal or dangerous items that otherwise would have made it onto airplanes, the Transportation Security Administration says. The TSA now requires all passengers at some U.S. airports either to pass through a full-body scanning device, which reveals everything beneath their clothing, or to submit to a thorough pat-down inspection -- a choice that has some travelers livid about their loss of privacy. But the TSA says keeping passengers safe is...

At a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill, TSA chief John Pistole defended the airport screening procedures and said they were necessary in, "the face of a persistent and evolving terrorist threat," according to a report by Joshua Norman of CBS News, but acknowledged the pat-downs were invasive. After submitting to a pat-down himself, he said they were, "more invasive than what I was used to." In an article at the Boston Herald, Michael Graham decribes the ordeal experienced by a mother travelling from Dayton, Ohio to Texas: “The TSA agent felt along my waistline, moved behind me, then proceeded to...