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Thanks for posting this. It's always interesting to know where they are at on these things and it's kind of a bipartisan hatred. I love the term they coined.."GATE RAPE" I also thought this post was interesting:\

I am a rape survivor.
While the TSA scan I endured last week (PHL to CHI) didn't involve forcible penetration, it DID involve a stranger putting hands -- forcefully -- on areas of my body that I consider private. Unannounced, unwanted and aggressively.
I damn near had a panic attack, and the more agitated and upset I got, the more stern and rough the scanner got. It did not matter that it was a female TSA agent performing the pat-down; all of the emotional trauma of having my body appropriated by someone else came flooding back.
I will never fly again, and I would not subject my daughters to what I consider to be a form of sexual harassment bordering on assault.