Davidwnc

Did you use it to join the mile high club?

trvlr64

Oh that's a story for a different type of message board.

I will just say that I've had 2 EX's that worked for a certain airline I used to live on

N965VJ

I'm guessing there are plenty of male screeners that are not happy with having to now grab some other guy's junk. In fact, one posted here they other day they were thinking of quitting because of the enhanced gropes.

Pat's had to deal with the TSA, but I'm not sure of the outcome.

RichardKenner

The passenger has to be able to choose the gender of screener. Under TSA's policy the gender of the screener is the gender that the passenger presents themselves to me. Many transgender people reject the concept of binary gender and will consider themselves male one day and female another. They are entitled to a same-gender screener at all times.

thegeneral

It's odd that you should say "wow" that I talked about sexual orientation given that you made a point of discussing it in your original post. You brought that into the discussion. Others mentioned how it seems arbitrary that people of the same gender should screen you when gender can be changed or re-assigned. I thought I'd take that point further noting that you can't tell sexual orientation by looking at someone. Thus, having searches be done by what people claim as the opposite of their sexual orientation would just get onerous. To boot, the same sex thing is as much to help the screeners as anyone. A younger, rather attractive woman in the TSA would likely end up doing a lot of searched by people of the opposite sex since most are straight and would prefer it.

That this whole topic should blow you away is rather silly. I'm sure you've taken a dump/leak in a men's bathroom hundreds of times, you showered with other males in school, swimming etc, changed with other males and likely hang around with them. That suddenly you expect an opposite sex pat down seems silly. It's not a sexual act. I was patted down last week and it wasn't anything unusual.

Wow, you know how to find wikipedia? Want a cookie?

Perhaps you might want to navigate over to the main constitution wiki and look up the third article. That's the mechanism that citizens can use to dispute laws if they feel their rights are being violated. It's odd that the tin foil hat wearers complain about all of this being unconstitutional and yet none of it has been shut down by a lawsuit.

Davidwnc

Lots of things that are unconstitutional go on for a long time before they are shut down by lawsuits. The length of time something is/has been going on does not determine it's constitutionality or lack thereof.

VH-RMD

yes, just look at segregation laws...

mozgytog

Civil disobedience, boycotts, protest marches and distribution of information via grassroots campaigns had nothing at all to do with the end of segregation.

Nope, organized resistance never works.

VH-RMD

again, where is the irony font when you need it....

mozgytog

Just adding to the sarcasm

JoeBas

If it's not a sexual act, why does the sex of the screener vis a vis the passenger even matter? Shouldn't it just be "Whichever screener is there is what you get."? After all, it's completely TOTALLY non sexual...

ScatterX

LMFAO. Seriously. Fall out of my chair stuff. +100 ^^^

polonius

Neither J-lo or any of her look-alikes is coming anywhere near my junk -- that would be enough to persuade me to opt-in to the nude-o-scope.

clrankin

I think we should not only be able to choose the gender of the screener, but also the sexual orientation of them. This way people who want to be patted down by a specific gender/sexual orientation type can get what they want-- and those who want to avoid certain gender/sexual orientation combinations can also avoid them. Screeners can start the pat-down process by identifying themselves and verifying that it's OK that they begin. (e.g. "Hi, I'm Jack, a heterosexual male. Is it OK if I start your pat-down now?")

While it may not make everyone totally satisfied, it would at least take a step in the right direction toward satisfying a numer of fliers who have concerns over these types of things.

Davidwnc

How about "Hi, I'm Jack, a closted homosexual male - please don't tell my family. Is it OK if I start your pat-down now?" OR "Hi, I'm Jack,basically a straight male but I do have to admit to being a bit bi-curious now and then... Is it OK if I start your pat-down now?"