Accepting full body scans and groping is inevitable
Filed by: Alex Blaze
November 28, 2010 1:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/accepting_full_body_scans_and_groping_is_inevitabl.phpI've been thinking along the same lines as Jos at Feministing:
Here's the thing: airport security has been problematic for a long time. Since 9/11 security checkpoints have become a major site for racial and religious profiling, something that is still very much going on today with rules that target Muslims. Transgender and gender non-conforming folks became a target when the Secure Flight program began requiring travelers to match the gender on their IDs. There were of course social justice responses, but nothing on the scale of the backlash we are hearing now. And the new security procedures only increase the danger for and potential targeting of trans folks.
All of this makes me wonder: what would have happened if we had heard an outcry like the one we are hearing now when the TSA was mostly a problem for trans folks and those targeted by racial profiling? What if everyone was this upset by threats to the rights of minority groups?
