Originally Posted by WillCAD

Hm, I think I see TSA's loophole here.

Perhaps TSA classifies dropping your pants or pulling up your skirt or opening your shirt to be "adjusting" your clothes, but not "removing" your clothes. Which means that if a TSO orders you to drop your pants, that's not a strip search, since the garment is not actually removed, it's only adjusted to provide views of what lies beneath it.

I guess it depends on what your definition of "is" is...