Originally Posted by
BSBD
Federal courts have ruled that entering the “secured area” constitutes consent to be screened. The courts have also found to date that anything TSA does as a matter of policy is considered “reasonable.”. So, if you consent to be screened, and then assault the screener, it’s pretty much impossible to claim self defense unless you can somehow prove the screening you received was intended to be an attack.
I think the only way you might be able to prove such intent would be with video showing multiple TSA screeners holding you down and pulling your clothes off. Even then, it might not work. TSA suffered no consequences when a Senator’s teenage niece had her top pulled off, exposing her breasts to the entire screening area.
Nowhere does TSA advise passengers that their genitals will be searched. In fact, they specifically have said
contact with Plaintiff's genitals, if any at all, was incidental and occurred through the course of a typical security pat-down.
Touching of the genitals is deliberate and its sexually assaultive.
TSA is too cowardly to use the word genitals, instead using the term "groin area." With women especially "groin area" does not cut the mustard. I would like to see a woman sue the TSA on this very aspect of its SOP.