{"id":5296,"date":"2019-09-02T02:06:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2019-09-02T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T09:06:10","slug":"trans-vs-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/09\/02\/trans-vs-tsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans vs. TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know the summer is over when hurricanes start hitting Florida.&nbsp; As we go to press, we\u2019re bracing to see what&nbsp;<strong>Dorian&nbsp;<\/strong>will do to the East Coast.&nbsp; When flying out of&nbsp;<em>Fort Lauderdale<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Airport<\/em>&nbsp;days earlier, I read the account of a transgender woman who had gone through the same airport two years ago.&nbsp; According to the 36-year-old, she required a pat-down because&nbsp;<em>TSA<\/em>\u2019s full-body scanner detected an issue around her groinal area.&nbsp; A female officer took her to a private room, gave her the pat-down, and seemed surprised at what she found.&nbsp; \u201cIf the issue is what you are feeling, let me tell you what this is \u2013 it is my penis,\u201d said the woman.&nbsp; This apparently caused quite a stir and required two more officers and a supervisor.&nbsp; They determined the trans woman would need a second pat-down by a male officer \u2013 which I would have thought made sense since a penis was detected.&nbsp; But I\u2019m wrong.&nbsp; Apparently policy dictates pat-downs must be done by an officer of the same gender as that which is presented by the traveler.&nbsp; So, penis or no penis, since this person presented as female, the pat-down by a female officer was correct.&nbsp; When the traveler in question refused to be patted-down by a male officer,&nbsp;<em>TSA<\/em>&nbsp;refused to let her through security.&nbsp; \u201cCan I just show you?\u201d she asked.&nbsp; Although this too is against policy, nobody objected.&nbsp; The penis was presented, and the lady made her flight.&nbsp; While I find this story informative, I also find it insulting.&nbsp; With all the flying I do, not once has anyone patted me down \u2013 and I\u2019ve never been shy about whipping out my dick in public!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the summer is over when hurricanes start hitting Florida.&nbsp; As we go to press, we\u2019re bracing to see what&nbsp;Dorian&nbsp;will do to the East Coast.&nbsp; When flying out of&nbsp;Fort Lauderdale&nbsp;Airport&nbsp;days earlier, I read the account of a transgender woman who had gone through the same airport two years ago.&nbsp; According to the 36-year-old, she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5305,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}