Valid question, but expand it: should ANY security person be required to search someone who's genitals aren't the same as theirs?
When it's a gender-separate event, most people don't expect any genitals different from their own. It can be shocking and upsetting to see different genitals without expecting or being prepared to do so. But when you work a job (like TSA security) which deals with the public and may involve necessary nudity, there is always a risk of someone not being what you expect. There's trans people, intersex people, people with genital injuries, etc...
While not very common, they do participate in public life, and some do need to interact is some level of undress with those workers (like TSA security). So what are the options?
- 1. They must be searched by security whose expressed gender matches their own (if one is present), and do not have to disclose the state of their genitals to security. This has the downside already mentioned.
- 2. They must be searched by the same expressed gender security, but must also disclose what their genitals look like to security before being searched. This could solve the above issue by making sure security will not be surprised, but they may still be uncomfortable with it. And further, since this includes more than just trans people, everyone searched by security would have to have a very awkward genital conversation with security in addition to undergoing an already awkward strip search.
- 3. They must be searched by security with the same genitals as them, regardless of gender expression of either. This would make it very rare for any security who doesn't have typical genitals to be able to conduct searches, but if there were none then anyone with non-typical genitals who needed to be searched would also not be able to be. This could also present a problem If TSA security found disclosing the state of their own genitals awkward, because now in addition to the search-ee needing to tell them, they will have to confirm or deny that theirs are the same and thus that they can search them.
- 4. I'm tired of typing. Keep running through alternatives until you find one you like. in my opinion i think mandating who searches who is always gonna have some uncomfortable parts to it, because forced nudity is never fun. Maybe TSA could just make sure they're okay with searching anyone? Or every air line can just internally decide their own policy, and you just learn the policy before applying to be security there? I don't know. I feel like harsh no-exception rules aren't a good answer.
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"her" <> "testicles"
What difference does it really make. I was searched by a male security agent.
Yes.
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Perhaps allow the person to choose? See woke ain't so hard...
correction: I mean ''no''.
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