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 ...
Good grief. What’s the big deal? He steps out, lets the scanner push the M button and steps through again. There was no need to make a big deal out of it. Just because he wants to live in a fantasy world doesn’t mean everyone else, especially security people, are required to immigrate there also.
His mental disorder is not the TSA’s problem..
PLLLEEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSEE Tell me that’s not a trans, I really have a thing for red haired women ...
I thought PC trumped national security. Maybe this needs to go to SCOTUS. Jeez, the Army’s top guy/gal(?) is transgender.
Are you a man or a woman?’
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What were you the day you were born ???
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.
Well, I have to agree with her on that part.
HE is not a woman, HE is a man.
Sounds like TSA now stands for transsexual analysis
It ain’t a her.
If I can’t take my penis along as carry-on, I’m just not going to fly anymore. As far as making a big deal out of it, hell, I’d jump up on the conveyor belt and wave it around if it would help. Shehe needs to be smacked.
I’m offended by zhe. The letter Z gives me panic attacks. I demand a more inclusive title. #zheisnotinclusive #panicattackpeopleslivesmatter #alphabetjustice #saynotozhe
What about Chaz Bono though? She potentially could sneak a phallic object onto the plane in her pants with none the wiser.
Maybe they shouldn’t let psycho nut cases fly at all.
Good grief, what in the heck do you expect?! You’re a guy dressed like a woman going through the line for women.
Maybe you made some woman cry because she didn’t want to touch your package.
Elderly nuns and small children have suffered worse indignities from TSA.
We’re all being assaulted by TSA, you’re not special— so suck it up you big arse baby.
She added: ‘This has nothing to with my sex. This has to do with the perception of my sex/gender by the TSA agent. I disclosed my reality immediately.’
She disclosed “my reality”. When “my reality” collides with REALITY, REALITY wins.
The reality is “she” is a mentally ill man.
They don’t have a female only line, it’s gender neutral.
Remember when these scanners came out everyone got concerned that the screeners could see your private parts, and even some smuggled pictures got published?
IIRC the fix was to make software do the recognition for bad stuff, but the software needs to know if if you have ‘junk’ down there or not, otherwise called male/female.
Poor TSA, they can fix one problem but cause another - it's the government “Law of Unintended Consequences” in action again.
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