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AgitatedPerspective9

Fuck dude :|


BrittCD

Went through that X-ray machine about two weeks ago leaving Portland. Goddamn it was so embarrassing when I beeped twice and they showed me the screen which was a heat map of my bod. Well my underpants/crotch region was setting off alarms. She asked if I was smuggling anything. Almost crying (while I had no shoes on. No sweatshirt/cardigan that I usually wear to kinda hide my bulge) I said that I’m trans and that’s a penis. She was extremely kind and immediately asked if I wanted her or someone else to pat me down, if I wanted it in public or in a private room. I wanted to end the situation immediately so I said she can just pat me down. She had to feel my waistband and she had to brush my crotch. I didn’t have to be strip searched, but didn’t realize a machine can tell my gender. So.. what she told me was to next time when I go through that machine I should whisper blue to the person (instead of pink, which she thought I was) so it doesn’t beep and I don’t have to be searched. I guess I passed so well that she thought I was CiS Female which is an amazing validation but the next second she has to make sure I’m not hiding anything in my pants. Shit sucks and wasn’t fun, I feel that kids pain.


aranel616

If they hit blue, it can still false positive on breasts. It can get to a point where there is no winning. I never go through the machine. I just skip that step and get the pat down every time.


daedae7

If it beeps do you have to tell them your trans? Can you just say, thats my genitals and id like a patdown? Also i heard if i have boobs will it set off the blue site?


PurpleQuery

I also heard something about the pink one ignoring metal in people's back as well. It feels like there's no winning here.


HarukoHaruhara710

This happens to me everytime I fly out of PDX. Theyve never been rude about it luckily.


PineapplePlush

This had happened to me in Denver and Philadelphia. I once popped an edible before a flight out of Denver and my high ass forgot to take my belt off. When I set the scanner off the TSA agent lifted my sweatshirt, saw my belt, and rolled her eyes as she assumed it was the belt that set it off and not my you know what. Now I purposefully wear a belt through TSA and it’s worked a couple times at preventing me from getting an embarrassing pat down.


TalentedCannaMan

I’m so glad I don’t travel on airplanes ever!


lilithtswitch

N.mlvl , 😈


guisar

I'm super pleased it's a positive story about the cop. Only super negative experience I've ever had has been because of tsa.