TSA Screening Ineffective And Humiliating For Everyone, and Dangerous For Transp

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TSA Screening Ineffective And Humiliating For Everyone, and Dangerous For Transpeople
By Bridgette P. LaVictoire
22 November, 2010


http://lezgetreal.com/2010/11/tsa-screening-ineffective-and-humiliating-for-everyone-and-dangerous-for-transpeople/


Six months or so ago I wrote up a piece about these full body scanners and, quite frankly, this has just gotten worse. At this point, I'd rather walk to England than fly. For the transsexual, this is an absolute nightmare. These scanners, even in the 'new' form where all they do is show a highlighted box on a generic figure is going to pick up the presence of non-standard genitalia and breast forms. It is already bad enough that breast cancer survivors are going to have their prosthetics show up, but also any wigs that they wear.