Transgender Woman Misses Flight After Embarrassing Pat-Down, Scan

Shadi Petosky
Shadi Petosky, via Twitter

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

A transgender woman missed her flight after the TSA forced her to undergo questioning and a 40-minute search after an “anomaly” during her full-body scan calibrated for a woman.

TSA agents flagged her after spotted the “anomaly,” the New York Daily News reports.

“That’s my penis,” she told a male TSA agent at Orlando International Airport.

What followed was a 40-minute pat-down and inspection that forced her to miss her flight to Minneapolis.

The incident drew outrage from transgender activists.

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