Originally Posted by
iowakatie1981
it's not a valid option for anyone with medical issues that will trigger the mags.
For example, as an amputee, I can turn over all my personal info and pay whatever the fee is, and garner access to the Less-Likely-To-Be-A-Terrorist Secret Handshake or whatever. But the instant I walk through the mag, I will alarm it, and then still be molested, and it won't matter that I've passed the background checks.
So now it turns out that I am ineligible for a federal program because of my disability. You know, I get that I can't join the Air Force. But I would like to be able to board a plane without having my ovaries xrayed.
I do think this is an incredible important perspective that we often overlook. Forget the x-rays and any potential health concerns. If you could choose to use a MMW scanner instead of a WTMD, which would you pick? Or what recommendations would you have for scanning amputees, people with artificial joints, etc?
There is anecdotal evidence (Claire McCaskill, for one) that some people who have been getting patdowns for years are very happy at the alternative to walk through a NoS. Is that because they feel they are not being 'singled out' anymore for extra screening, or it the thought of a gape really less offensive than a grope for some subset of the population?