The body scanners in wide exercise at airport checkpoints catch non-conforming gender presentation but miss most weaponsWhen Eliot Johnson was traveling through Portland International Airport to visit his girlfriend final year,the final thing he expected was to have his body and gender be put on display. “When I showed my ID, the person announced my birth name, or which was still on my ID,” Johnson, 25, and recently told me when recounting an interaction with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents. “And [then they] said,‘Well this is just confusing.’”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com