Originally Posted by
Blackmagicti
I know this is an old thread, but I need to calm my worried mind. I was a badged employee and got picked for the thigh slide pat down. When the TSO started on one leg, she did it so fast that she scared me when she "met resistance" and I jumped straight up in the air and cried out. Now I am a very jumpy person by nature. Those "cute" little games that kids play with each other where they surprise you or try to scare you, make me scream bloody murder. So the TSO refused to continue the pat down. I kept saying that I didn't want my genitalia touched, so that was taken as a refusal to complete the process, and I was escorted out of the terminal and went home from work. I have also accused of using vulgar language at TSO's for using the word "genitalia."
Seriously, my cute little ankle-biter of a dog will start to bark at something only she can hear and I will scream at the top of my lungs in reaction. My dog looks at me like I'm half crazy. But it really is a manifestation of the intense anxiety I suffer from.
There is a lot more to my story, but I am scared that a fine will be levied against me. Though it would fit the pattern of retaliation I had been receiving for filing a complaint against a TSO when her pat down included her jabbing her fingertips into my vulva. I did this really stupid thing believing everyone around me that were "shocked" that this kind of thing could happen, when in fact, it is completely SOP to touch people's pee-pees and everyone but me knew. I didn't make it 4 months at that job.
FYI, I will be requesting the video for this particular incident.
First of all: TSA lie: “contact with Plaintiff’s genitals, if any at all, was incidental and occurred through the course of a typical security pat-down.” Read here:
tinyurl.com/y9ttb62p Read the link, it outlines a case in which a private citizen effected a citizen's arrest of a screener for an aggressive screening. So far, the passenger is succeeding in his law suit.
Second, when you are sexually assaulted by a TSA screener, get their Supervisory TSO (STSO) involved. The STSO is req'd per TSA rules to collect & retain ALL evidence & witness names+contact info. But you must demand it, and ask 4 a litigation hold before erased!*
Interesting that you were "accused of using vulgar language at TSO's for using the word "genitalia." TSA is scared to death to tell victims that their genitals will be touched. They use the words "groin area" instead. That might work for males but it does NOT work for females.
I think that people are shocked by the way TSA does a "pat down" - it is nothing less than sexual assault - but most are afraid to say anything for fear of being TSA's next victim.
*Plagiarized from @
metooByTSA
Please also consider using this hashtag in the future:
#MeTooByTSA