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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Stupid freak.
Work, work, work.
This is juuust the beginning.
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.
From now on, all transgenders and gays generally, as well as Muslims in burqas, can just go through the line unscanned. Only elderly white Christian heterosexuals will get hassled.
Jees...
The correct pronoun is “it”
I have a friend who is a TSA baggage screener; I will have to ask her what the heck she would be supposed to do in a similar situation. Aside from trying not to burst into howling laughter, obviously.
-PJ
Well, the deviants kept at us for years and finally broke through. Brave new world. Thanks, freaks.
I agree: *he, *she, *it. Or, more accurately: *he, *she, *defying God, as that rapper pointed out recently.
Sing like a woman.........yeah I remember Frankie. I don't think It should have expected anything else when the scanner shows a supposed woman trying to sneak a small sausage shaped object onto an aircraft.
I have no pity for mental cases of their own accord. Live with your fantasy.
It’s zhe.
Those wiggly little anomalies just get in the way. Then chop ‘em off.
TSA are, hmmn?, what are they? bigots racists, homophobes. Is there even a label for them? LOL
Maybe they thought that it was a gun and she was happy to see them?
Freak.
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