Originally Posted by red456
Interesting - the article I read emphasized there would be only same-sex screening and said nothing aobut discretion to forego screening based on age or gender; hopefully, this will mean that no old lady will be forced to undergo the indignity of having some screener reaching up under granny's skirt to find her mid-thigh and patdown her legs. (from poster realted to me in another thread on this same topic.)
Don't worry, nobody's going to be reaching up under anybody's skirts. I've done loads of patdowns on dress-wearing women due to being in wheelchairs or having pacemakers or because their artifical knee alarmed the hand wand. No one has to reach under a skirt to pat down the leg.