A couple friends of mine were recently complaining about how uncomfortable and undignified people consider the new TSA procedures including full-body "naked" scanners and invasive pat-down procedures that involve touching the breasts, groin, buttocks, and other areas most of us consider private. They said that we are all comfortable with this around doctors, so why not around TSA employees?
If you think like this, stop.
It's very easy to say things about how people are making their own naked bodies too big a deal when their bodies are considered "normal" by most society. Those of us who use prosthetics or body shapers have a very different set of problems than you do. They already made this breast cancer survivor take out her prosthesis, which is a standard part of the procedure. I'm just waiting for them to ask a transman to whip out his prosthetic penis to subject to explosive testing. Wouldn't that just be good times? You could just decide not to wear it that day, but that's its own can of worms as you walk through the scanner or subject to their grope test and they notice something is amiss.
All over something that makes your flight only marginally safer than it was before.
But no, we're all just naked under our clothes, why should we worry about that sort of thing? Because clearly my body is everyone's business.
Also, the NCTE has an article detailing what trans people need to know about the new TSA procedures which is worth a read if you fly a lot or plan on flying in the near future.
