Originally Posted by
sangreal
Seems to be standard (and imo reasonable) policy:
To prevent your medication, associated supplies or fragile medical materials for contamination or damage, we will ask you to display, handle, and repack your own medication and associated supplies during visual inspection. Any medication and/or associated supplies that we can't clear visually will be X-rayed. If you refuse, you will not be permitted to carry your medications and related supplies into the sterile area.
If that were the case, the TSOs
and especially the supervisors should have exhibited the intelligence and courtesy to explain it the traveler instead of claiming it was some supersecret regulation that they could not disclose.
Sadly, both TSOs and supervisors seem to lack both intelligence and courtesy.