Full Body scanners seem to have shown up at DCA in the last week. I had the "good fortune" to use the premium lane at the DL pier today. It's the only line where they use them. Apparently bad people will focus themselves on one line.

Seems to be a ruse to invent new rules (remove your belt even if it doesn't alarm, put your wallet through the bins, etc). I declined. This yielded an agent hissy fit, a 10 minute wait, and then a guy to come over and grope me. Except he admitted he hadn't been trained on how to do this procedure at all. As one might suspect, I hadn't removed my wallet - Im not letting it out of my sight. The Agent confiscated it and removed it from my immediate area and view for "additional screening".

This episode of "security theater" lasted about 20 minutes... involved me being separated from my wallet, and groped by an agent in the crotch.

What options do we have to avoid this? Any tips on how to avoid my wallet being inevitably pilfered?