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Title: Ashley Yang-Fired By The TSA For Being Trans
Post by: Natasha on June 20, 2011, 06:35:43 PM
Ashley Yang-Fired By The TSA For Being Trans

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/06/ashley-yang-fired-by-tsa-for-being.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/06/ashley-yang-fired-by-tsa-for-being.html)
6/20/11
Monica Roberts

Trans people when we fly already have concerns about undergoing TSA screenings and the potential for getting harassed and disrespected when we do.  Now come word about a Transportation Security Administration screener who when she was discovered to be trans, was harassed and fired by the TSA weeks before her two year probationary period expired