Trans woman victim of discriminatory treatment while at Florida airport.
Not even an hour ago, a friend of mine began retweeting posts from a friend of hers in Florida. Shadi Petosky, a writer at PUNY , was going through security on her way to board an American Airlines flight, when the TSA pulled her aside because of an "anomaly (in between her legs)" that was seen during the screening. They then showed her into a room, where an officer held the door closed. A TSA agent by the name of Bramlet told Petosky to go through the screening machine as a man, or else it was "going to be a problem." It didn't end there. Officers accused Petosky of having explosives in her hands (there weren't any). Shadi kindly asked if the agent had any training in trans issues and he said abruptly, "I know what I'm doing!" Petosky tweeted that she flies all the time and she has never had a problem. Cops and TSA agents said that they wanted to take her phone, but Shadi said she wanted to keep a record of what was happening (which she did. S...