Submissions
While passing through airport security, I was selected to go through one of your new body scanners. As I went through the scanner, it picked up aprosthetic that I wear. This is worn in my underwear. I explained to the officer at the scanner that I am Trans* and that I was wearing a prosthetic, to
which he responded that he would need to get his supervisor
In full view of other travellers, the Supervisor approached me putting rubber gloves on.
When I asked him what the gloves were for, he told me that he was going to do a 'private search'.
I pulled out my prosthetic enough for them to see. The supervisor said I needed to sign a form first, and while saying this, he put on a second glove. I
asked him again what the gloves were for and he replied, 'you want me to touch that thing with my bare hands?'
One thing I never gave consideration to was an IED prosthetic risk.