Thanks for posting this! I am also a transtibial amputee and travel frequently. My amputation is recent (9/9) and on my first screening I was gropped heavily (3/10) during a pointless 30 min search that never looked at my prosthesis. Like Wendy, I figured the best thing for everyone was that I put my prosthesis through the x-ray and hop through, which I did around 50 times all over the country for over a year. Then a few months ago I tripped a metal detector twice and hoped over to secondary as instructed. There, while following TSA instructions, two police officers flanked me and said “come with us”. I objected, asked for grounds, and was td I was being arrested for charges “we’ll figure out later”! I was put to the ground twice (hoping on one leg with nothing but jeans and a tee shirt). I bailed out that night, went back to the airport, did exactly the same thing with the same possessions at thesame check point, and got on the plane. Turns out, you are not allowed to remove a prosthesis in a TSA check point — because it’s embarrassing! You must go through secondary! There are no signs and no-one has ever told me not to. TSA dropped it, but the police still have charges on me (resisting strewed and other bs) and I’m still waiting for a court date.