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 ...
——Those wiggly little anomalies——
the anomaly was declared to be atrophied. If atrophied, how was it able to become an anomaly?
there seems to be a discrepancy in the reality here
Maybe this needs to go to SCOTUS......I dunno? Maybe, in this case, SCROTUS?
Sounds loke the scanner operator has to press male or female and they pressed female based on he/she/it’s appearance. Hence the anomalie in the crotch.
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