There is also no chance that it was opposite gender screening.
No chance? How can you make such a pronouncement unless you're omniscient and omnipresent?
If the need arose, I would gladly swear under oath that I endured a thorough frisking at the hands of a male TSA. He was a tall, thin black man with very closely-cropped hair and he escorted me to an area that was petitioned off and that's where the frisk began.
I don't remember when (late 2004 if I had to guess), but I do remember that I told a lawyer friend about this afterward, and he was aghast. He said that I should file a complaint. I did not file a complaint. I was so terrified of being put on a no-fly list that I decided to just chalk it up to a lesson learned and move along.
At the time, I was a single woman with limited resources and a modest income and if I hadn't been able to fly, my small business would have died.
Rose