Gender-ambiguous people sometimes bring out angry reactions from others, for some reason. (I have a colleague who would be described in that way, and he tells me he gets yelled at, eye-rolling, name-called reactions almost daily.) The TSA situation has to be understood in that light--in the context of the daily hostility that gender-ambiguous people suffer all the time.

What I find unbelievable is that the AIT cannot cope with assessing threats without first assigning a 'body type.' This is bizarre to me, since it's obvious that some females have practically no breast tissue that the 'template' must be expecting, whereas some males are far better endowed in the chest department than many females. Is there a special template for 'man-boobs' for chestier males?

People come in all sizes, shapes, and amplitudes. A machine that cannot cope with the differential 'naughty bits' is so primitive that I cannot believe it could possibly cope with all the other variations in the human shape. Hence my skepticism that it can possibly contribute to meaningful security.