It's awesome that you and gfish don't have much to personally lose by having a picture of your genitals exposed to law enforcement. I fly about four times a month right now, and I'm trans. When a trans person gets outed to anyone in a position of authority, under any circumstances, things almost immediately go horrifically wrong. Did you know that it's still common for trans people to get routinely raped and beaten in jail, just because people can? Yeah. *That* is what I'm looking at when I see one of those machines, because it's a tiny, miniscule jump from "hey, look at the tranny" to "your genitals don't match the ID you're flying with" to "protective custody". Seriously. You may not believe me, but, frankly, it's spectacularly unlikely that you've got any room to even speak to the issue. Not, of course, that I expect the general population to give a flying fuck about my rights, but actually, yeah, there is some exceptionally direct harm being done by both the scanners and the assault-pat-downs.
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