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Transgender travelers singled out in TSA screenings

Transgender travelers singled out in TSA screenings

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by: Chrisinkingwood Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 1:21pm  
I guess they just don't know if they are packing heat or packing meat...Department of Homeland Security documents obtained last month reveal
details of incidents in which transgender travelers were subjected to
heightened scrutiny when passing through airport security checkpoints.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests netted civil rights
complaints, incident reports and internal memos and emails from the
DHS's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Transportation
Security Administration. They show that trans people have been required
to undergo pat-down searches by officers of the opposite gender, reveal
or remove items such as chest binders and prosthetic penises and defend
challenges to their gender identities and their right to opt out of
body scans, among other problems.
 
 
 
The screening problems chronicled in the documents confirm concerns
long held by transgender people and their supporters, like Portland,
Oregon, resident Joy, who asked that her last name be withheld. Last
year she took a long-awaited trip to Europe without her partner because
he had fears about going through security. “Since he has not had bottom
surgery,” she said, “I think the fear was, ‘What’s going to happen when I
don’t have all the body parts that they expect?’ I got home, and I
thought, he cannot be the only person that is concerned about this.”
The firsthand accounts in the TSA records include a complaint from a
trans passenger who was searched by an officer of the opposite gender at
Las Vegas’ McCarran Airport in August 2012; the traveler called the
incident “one of the most uncomfortable and terrifying experiences of my
life.” 
 
 
 

At Louisville International Airport in Kentucky the same month, a
trans man who wore a brace around his chest missed his flight after
being selected for a pat-down screening that the subsequent complaint
described as inappropriate and exaggerated. At LAX, also in 2012,
another trans man wearing a strap-on was required to remove it and put
it through the X-ray machine despite his telling the TSA officer that
“this item is as much a part of her [sic] as a prosthetic leg or arm
would be to an amputee,” according to an email the officer wrote to the
airport’s TSA customer-service manager. 
In an incident described by an LAX transportation security manager in
a July 2011 memo, another passenger at LAX told the manager she
identified as female and “if he [sic] was to be screened by a male he
would feel violated.” The manager insisted three times that the
passenger’s gender presentation was male; the passenger was ultimately
screened by a male.Feinstein said all TSA screening officers receive sensitivity training,
though it does not generally include content specific to transgender
passengers. In fact, the NCTE  offered to conduct training geared toward
trans passengers for TSA officials for years but was rebuffed. Finally,
in March, Tobin began doing Web-based training for 500 to 1,000 of the
TSA’s roughly 2,600 passenger-support specialists. She expects to
complete it this summer. Travelers who would like help getting through
security may request assistance from a specialist at the checkpoint or
by calling the TSA Cares hotline 72 hours before their trip
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 2:14pm  
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allymansfield Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 2:35pm  
This is getting out of control. 4951
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ForeCPA90 Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 2:44pm  
Why should the whole country conform to a person just because they are too mentally ill to know what gender they are?I don't care if a man identifies with a woman's identity, I really don't, more power to them, this is America and they are free, but why does everyone else have to capitulate and go out of the way to humor these folks.If  I have to take my liquids and gels out of my bag, why should your strap-on be any different?  Take it off and put it in a zip lock bag I say.If you want to be trans-gendered, fine, but this is a you problem as my boss would say. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 3:10pm  
Why should the whole country conform to a person just because they are too mentally ill to know what gender they are?I don't care if a man identifies with a woman's identity, I really don't, more power to them, this is America and they are free, but why does everyone else have to capitulate and go out of the way to humor these folks.If  I have to take my liquids and gels out of my bag, why should your strap-on be any different?  Take it off and put it in a zip lock bag I say.If you want to be trans-gendered, fine, but this is a you problem as my boss would say.
 
@ForeCPA90: You're going to be labeled a hater for that. 20 years ago this was normal thinking. Go figure?
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 3:57pm  
I'm pretty dang liberal, but I absolutely have to agree with @ForeCPA90 be what you want, but don't expect/force other people to conform to your way of thinking.The one section of the article about the person who identifies as a woman but has male parts saying they would feel violated if they were patted down by a male is ridiculous.  So a female should be forced to touch male parts because you feel like a woman?  What if that female TSA agent is extremely dedicated to her husband and feels it is terribly wrong to touch another man's parts? Should she have the right to refuse to do the search, or would the passenger scream discrimination? 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 4:10pm  
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 4:28pm  
also in 2012, another trans man wearing a strap-on was required to remove it and put it through the X-ray machine despite his telling the TSA officer that �this item is as much a part of her [sic] as a prosthetic leg or arm would be to an amputee,��
 
This one is just pathetic...to compare thinking you "need" a fake penis to someone having a prosthetic arm or leg because of an amputation??? ..it really is disgusting and twisted the way this persons mind works.
 
If you're going to have a sex change because you truly feel as if you were born the wrong sex, and ftr i do believe that's possible, then do it, legally and permanently but until it is complete...you ARE what your genitalia says you are..physically anyway, psychologically you can be anything you want but its not your right to force it on others. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 4:42pm  
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BooBear Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 4:46pm  
Paint a dog like a zebra and it's still a dog
 
@mm4731:
 
But a much cooler one. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 4:57pm  
This is pretty nauseating. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 5:03pm  
on Halloween dress up as anything or any one & it's okay , but do it every day & you have a problem......be who GOD made & and what you were born as  & happy . If you have to change your sex keep it to your self , no one else needs to know or wants to know...it should be a "private matter" between you & your doctors only .just my opinion. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 5:07pm  
Who doesn't like a chick with a d***? 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 5:31pm  
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 5:33pm  

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>> If you have to change your sex keep it to your self , no one else needs to know or wants to know...it should be a "private matter" between you
 
@WJo: it should be a law that you have to disclose that information to any and all potential sexual partners.
 
Imagine how sick you'd be if you found out your husband was actually a chick.
Stuff like that gets people killed
 
 
@mm4731: uh oh...did you bark up the wrong tree before?
 
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