Transgender Woman Held By TSA When Penis Was Discovered A transgender woman claims she was delayed by TSA workers at Orlando International Airport after machinery discovered that her anatomy did not match her gender identity . Shadi Petosky, a writer and producer, tweeted about her experience as it happened. Petosky told NBC News : “I stepped into the full body scanner, the TSA agent looked at me and pressed the F button. The scanner picked up an ‘anomaly’ in my crotch area.” I said, ‘I’m transgender. That’s my penis.’ The TSA officer then said something like, ‘If you are a man, then go back in the machine and we’ll run you as a man.’ When the agent told her that she needed to be run as a man or a woman, Petosky said she tried to make light of it, saying: “I’m transgender. I am a woman, but I have an atrophied penis, trying to make it kind of not a big deal.” The TSA officer replied, “If you don’t want to be run as a man, we’ll have to search you. Are you a man or a woman?” Then he asked her if she wanted a male or female agent complete a pat-down search of her body. “I kind of froze. I have never been flagged in the groin before and didn’t want to make a female officer touch there, but didn’t want a man to do the pat down.” Petosky was then held in a side room for a pat down, searched twice, and her luggage was completely unpacked and searched. Overall the encounter lasted 40 minutes, causing her to miss her flight altogether. She was booked on another flight for the following day, but felt that the experience unfairly singled her out. Do you think she has a point…or should she have just gone through the male scanner and called it a day?? Twitter
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Transgender Woman Held At TSA Gate After Ladies’ Body Scanners Find “Physical Anomaly” Between Her Legs
