If you are flying you never know what will happen when you have to go through security, it doesn’t matter what the policy is because what it boils down to is the person who you get for the inspection.
TSA agents examine transgender DNC delegate’s genitalia over ‘groin anomaly’This is subhuman treatment, it is degrading, and totally violates TSA guidelines, but that doesn’t matter because if you object you will be treated even worst.
New York Daily News
By Tobias Salinger
July 26, 2016
A transgender activist was subjected to a groping and full-nudity inspection of her genitalia by Transportation Security Administration agents, she said.
TSA agents stopped Mia (Tu Mutch) Satya at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when she was traveling as a delegate to this week’s Democratic National Convention Sunday. She told the Daily News the encounter reflects a common reality among the transgender community.
"This kind of harassment and non-consensual groping is so widespread that when I posted it to Facebook a lot of the comments were 'How is this any different than what happens to me when I go to the airport. And it's not," said Satya, 25. "The agency has proven itself unwilling to listen to the trans community."
An agent patted down Satya, who was designated the male gender at birth, on both of her thighs and “the entirety of my panties” after telling her the imaging chamber showed a “groin anomaly,” she told the San Francisco Examiner. The agents then ordered her to a private screening room, where she had to take off her underwear and wait several seconds as TSA screeners examined her privates.
The latest episode in transgender people’s struggles with the agency’s “groin anomaly” appeared to violate TSA’s own security screening policies.And you wonder why trans people worry about flying?
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