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Old Jul 23, 2017 | 12:43 pm
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Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel
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.
Should Caitlynn Jenner, pre-surgery, have her breasts handled as a woman's or a man's? Should a female screener have the right to refuse to grope someone like Caitlynn Jenner, pre-surgery?

Are male screeners even trained to lift, separate, cup and squeeze? They do have to handle heterosexual males with breasts, I'm sure.

Personally, I don't think a screener should have the right to refuse to screen a pax whose gender they don't identify with. If a pre-surgery Caitlyn Jenner, with full breasts, a bra, and a penis identifies as a woman and wants to be groped by a woman, it should be her choice, including to have the grope in public. TSA assures us there is nothing remotely sexual about the grope, so to any properly trained, professional screener, it's just a living piece of baggage.
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