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Old Jul 23, 2017 | 11:38 am
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Loren Pechtel
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Originally Posted by Skatering
Their biological sex might be indeterminate but there's a good probability that their gender is male or female.

If a TSA officer can't determine someone's gender from appearance, they ask "What gender are you?" or equivalent.

I was asked this once. I didn't give her a clear answer (not intentionally...just got thrown by the question). At that point she asked "Do you want to be patted down by a male or female officer?" I said female. She prodded my leg a bit. I was good to go.
While there is a good probability that the intersexed are mostly one gender there are a few where they are solidly in the middle. What gender is someone who has a penis and a vagina? (Naturally, not surgically.)

I was joking about it and figuring intersexed as a gender, thus they need to be patted down by someone else who is intersex.
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