Originally Posted by Vidiot

Mods, if there's a better/preferred way to embed tweets, I'm happy to edit this. Wasn't sure how to do it best.

My reactions to this story:
--I can understand a trans woman presenting the MMW scanners with the Gumby software as an "anomaly." She said she flies all the time and has never run into this problem before, however. I think that if her descriptions are accurate, TSA could still have handled this much better, by explaining the need for a patdown, not doing the apparently-retaliatory explosives-scan patdown, dismantling her luggage, sensitively offering her a private screening and the opportunity for a witness, et cetera.
--Why did the TSA detain her? TSA has no detention authority, and it sounded like it was not a law enforcement detention predicated on reasonable suspicion of criminal behavior, though LEOs were eventually present.
--Why was she told she couldn't take pictures or document her experience at the checkpoint? This is, once again, contrary to what TSA says on its site and in all its communications (save for the request not to take photos/video of scanner screens.)
--Why did TSA tell her she would have to leave the airport, once she'd made it into the sterile area, past the checkpoint?