Transgender woman live-tweets awful experience at airport
Shadi Petosky, a transgender woman, was detained at the Orlando airport on Monday after TSA allegedly thought "her body parts didn't match her gender identity."
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Petosky told NBC News, "I stepped into the full body scanner, the TSA agent looked at me and pressed the F button...The scanner picked up an 'anomaly' in my crotch area."
Comedian Tig Notaro, as well as transgender advocate Jenni Boland, tweeted about the situation to their thousands of followers. TSA responded and released this statement.
.@JennyBoylan TSA takes all potential civil rights violations very seriously. We are looking into the situation now for further information.
— TSA (@TSA) September 21, 2015
Here are Petosky's live tweets from the Orlando airport yesterday (please note, this is not all of Petosky's tweets from September 21):
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