TSA’s scanner ‘inclusive’ upgrade
for transgender passengers costs taxpayers
$18.6 million
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/1/2022 10:22:44 AM
The Transportation Security Administration is spending more than $18.6 million of taxpayer money to update airport screening protocols and technology to be more inclusive of transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming passengers. A large portion of the money is going to develop and deploy new gender-neutral body scanner technology throughout the nation’s airports. The TSA hopes the new technology will help reduce the pat-downs and other invasive screen procedures that are required when transgender individuals trigger body scanners “in a sensitive area.” “Over the coming months, TSA will move swiftly to implement more secure and efficient screening processes that are gender-neutral, as well as technological updates
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It will cost multiples of that and make us less safe (to the extent that TSA protects us at all), which is the real objective. That, and to underscore our national commitment to honoring the ever-falling lowest common denominator along our race to the bottom.