More gender trans-gender training/retraining coming for TSA employees
Aug 4, 2011, 3:13 pm
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More gender trans-gender training/retraining coming for TSA employees
I wonder if Pistole has promised her the retraining will take place and she won't have to put up with it again?
A transgender Transportation Security Administration agent who was fired from her job at Los Angeles International Airport for using the women's restroom has received back pay and a five-figure award for pain and suffering as part of a civil rights settlement.
A transgender Transportation Security Administration agent who was fired from her job at Los Angeles International Airport for using the women's restroom has received back pay and a five-figure award for pain and suffering as part of a civil rights settlement.
Aug 4, 2011, 4:07 pm
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This is just another reason why every passenger who is about to be groped should have the right to quiz his/her TSO about whether they're straight, homosexual, bisexual, etc.
And the TSO should be required to answer truthfully.
If they have nothing to hide, they shouldn't be embarrassed by it.
And the TSO should be required to answer truthfully.
If they have nothing to hide, they shouldn't be embarrassed by it.
Aug 4, 2011, 7:32 pm
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Ashley Yang says she was ordered to dress like a man, pat down men and use the men's restroom after she informed a human resources manager that a background check would reveal she was born male and hadn't undergone sex reassignment surgery.
This could only have happened if she had been hired and was at work prior to undergoing a background check.
Aug 6, 2011, 11:17 am
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Aug 6, 2011, 11:20 am
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Whether anyone should be patting down anyone in the invasive manner of the TSA is another question altogether.
Aug 6, 2011, 11:31 am
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There's a huge difference between discriminating against someone based on gender, and prying into someone's personal life. Just because a TSO is gay, transgendered, etc. doesn't mean they're hot for your @ss.
Whether anyone should be patting down anyone in the invasive manner of the TSA is another question altogether.
Whether anyone should be patting down anyone in the invasive manner of the TSA is another question altogether.
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Aug 6, 2011, 11:35 am
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There's a huge difference between discriminating against someone based on gender, and prying into someone's personal life. Just because a TSO is gay, transgendered, etc. doesn't mean they're hot for your @ss.
Whether anyone should be patting down anyone in the invasive manner of the TSA is another question altogether.
Whether anyone should be patting down anyone in the invasive manner of the TSA is another question altogether.
there should absolutely not be men feeling over women; the transgender thing is an interesting wrinkle though...
Aug 6, 2011, 12:39 pm
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But there always is the possibility that the frisks could in some way be sexual to a transgender person - and I think a requirement that TSA personnel present their sexual preference aloud to the flying public is an appropriate way to neutralize this.
Aug 6, 2011, 1:14 pm
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Or do you just want the gay screeners to be forced to wear pink triangles on their uniforms or something?
Aug 6, 2011, 1:16 pm
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Personally I just want a way to force the screeners to feel some of the humiliation that they're inflicting upon the traveling public.
But there always is the possibility that the frisks could in some way be sexual to a transgender person - and I think a requirement that TSA personnel present their sexual preference aloud to the flying public is an appropriate way to neutralize this.
But there always is the possibility that the frisks could in some way be sexual to a transgender person - and I think a requirement that TSA personnel present their sexual preference aloud to the flying public is an appropriate way to neutralize this.
Aug 6, 2011, 1:32 pm
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The 4th Amendment says nothing about sexual motivations. It just calls what you are doing illegal. It is an afront to citizens and degrades them when you contact their sexual organs simply because you have the physical power to force the issue.
Aug 6, 2011, 1:49 pm
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"Sir, I'll need you to come this way for a private screening." Bow chick wow wow.
In fact I'm sure it's already been done. Rule 34 and whatnot.
Aug 6, 2011, 1:52 pm
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