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.
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“Stem” the flow of emotions.
Shadi=Shady....
If there’s a penis “it’s” a man. Sorry leftist wackjobs.
The "freeze" was a brief moment of reality crashing into this guy's fantasy life.
I’ve been traveling by air for years. Never encountered a TSA line segregated by gender. Men and women go through the same line.
Cross dressing homosexual. Nothing more. She is no more a woman than any man. Women ought to not put up with this nonsense.
Thank you.
And after seeing "her" pic, so do I. I guess I'm a tranny now.
BFL !
I’ve reached a personal compromise. I’m willing to call transsexuals “she”, but only after they’ve had their man-parts removed. Not that that makes them a woman, it doesn’t, but at least it shows some real commitment! Most won’t do it.
Concur. I fly about every month and go through big airports and small airports. I have never seen a "gender" line. "It is a set-up Jim."
What kind of fool wears a disguise through a TSA checkpoint?
A clown?
Maybe they can train chimps to do the “pat down”.
Trannies V. TSA Scumbags, I’m gonna be Switzerland on this.
Damn queers are going to need a special setting on the machine before it is all said and done.
I say it the queer is not going to use it, lop it off with a kitchen knife.
Where is that Bobbit (sp) lady?
Sounds like TSA now stands for transsexual analysis
Or Transexual’s Swinging Appendage
Anomaly? You were *born* with it,Sport.It’s your boobs that are the anomaly!
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