Originally Posted by Dovster
If I am wearing jeans with a button fly and the metal buttons set off the alarm, do I have the right to demand that a female screener pat down the area?
Which, of course, leads to another question. If the female screener is attractive, while patting down the area she might discover a hard object under the buttons. What is the procedure after that?
Prior to TSA, gender didn't matter when it came to wanding. Then the FAA later limited it to females being able to wand males but males could no longer wand females. During that time, I was escorting an elderly gentleman for secondary screening and advised him that a female screener might wand him. Before I could ask him if he had any objections, he looked across the checkpoint and said, "good, I'll take the blonde."