Tomorrow I'm flying to California to visit my family.  I pass a guy about 60% of the time.  Unfortunately i have to bring pads  .  How can I hide them without the security people finding them?  Because if they saw that a guy had pads in his luggage, that would be really embarassing for me!  Or should I just go to the airport as a girl?

Go as you.  It's none of their damned business. 

No, seriously, I mean it... as an MtF, I've gone shopping for pads and tampons (I was married while still in denial), I've packed pads in my luggage, etc. 

If you feel like you need a backup story just in case, there are some men with incontinence issues who use pads.  If you were to be asked, (99.999% probability you won't be, but in the off chance...) you could look embarrassed and say you have a weak bladder.

Or you could just tell them you're FtM and to mind their own business; there is *no way* one of those could be considered to be a weapon, which is all they need to know.

*hug*  You'll do great. 

Just put them in your luggage. Unless they sit there, open uo your bag, and go through everything, they shouldn't even notice. They shouldn't go through your bag, especially on the busy flight holiday, unless the scanners/x-ray machines shows that you're carrying contraband.

There should be no problem at all; they will not show up on X-ray so unless they do a detail inspection of everything inside no one will know.  I have taken tampons several times with no problem.  I live and travel as a guy all the time

If they pull your luggage out for hand screening, they are discrete about it. I had a prosthetic in my bag in a little sack. They didn't pull it out of the sack which is good as that would have been embarrassing. They aren't going to pull things out of paper bags and that sort of thing. The only reason my bag was pulled was that it was overstuffed and they couldn't see stuff with the x-rays.

--Jay

Put them somewhere out of the way. Unless they're suspicious and going  to look for something in particular they normally just open the top of your bag and get you the obvious stuff out.

I wouldn't recommend hiding them in loads of socks or anything, because that might raise questions, but maybe in a tobacco tin or something. Women do that with their products, some of them come packaged in little tins. If they ask you to open it then just say it's your girlfriends/sisters/kids, they get so many people through they probably won't even notice your travelling alone. Or just say she left them there.

At the end of the day you'll see them for 5 minutes max, and they see thousand of people. It'll only be a big issue to you.

oh geez.

They don't care.

I've been on T for over 3 years, and still keep an emergency pad or two handy.  If someone was looking through a drawer and found them I wouldn't give two flying f-cks.

Regardless, the people in the TSA really really REALLY don't care.  I literally walked through one of the new scanners wearing a packer 3 days ago and didn't even get a pat down.  I always get a pat-down - packer or not, so that was pretty crazy.  I've also put said packer in my carry on and sent it through the x-ray machine with no questions asked.  Literally a floppy rubber dick in my bag and no comment about it.  I don't think they'll think twice about your maxi-pads.

Apart from that, you can't hide much of anything from security.  Any attempts to hide things may be seen as suspicious, so these techniques are best avoided.  Maybe if you're really super concerned throw them in your checked bag?  That way it won't be connected with your gender in the slightest.  Can you even imagine the kind of things these security officers see in a day's work?  People flying to S&M weekends, and the like, probably blow your transman-with-pads embarrassment out of the water. 

Many men carry pads, incontinence products, sexy underwear. Don't worry. The only time I got 'embarrassed' was when I was asked to open my brief case, the only content was a half empty bottle of gin (I was a drunk at that time) he raised his eyebrows and I said I get thirsty at times. He just smiled.

oh dude, don't worry about it. that's the last thing they're going to be concerned with.