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"The rules stress that passengers can ask to be checked in private and by a screener of their same gender - Gentry and Gaynier say their patdowns were conducted by women - and that screeners must only use the backs of their hands when touching sensitive places.

But legal groups who are monitoring the women's complaints say those rules are not always followed.

"What these women are complaining about is being groped," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's technology and liberty project, which is tracking the complaints and hopes to meet with the TSA soon."