TSA Concerns
So for folks who have not been paying attention, the TSA has instituted new technology that lets them scan your body for foreign objects. It's amazing how much you can see in these machines. No- really- check out this info based PDF:http://dontscan.us/files/5a.pdfNow, as a former adult film actress, I could care less about being seen naked. Even with no external genitalia and a male ID, really, that doesn't phase me. But it does phase a lot of folks, and for good reason. Like the physical over-the-topness of some implementation, searching until there is resistance?But my concerns are a tad simpler, and have been summarized by Jeffrey Goldberg:1) I prefer to limit my exposure to radiation, which the back-scatter imager produces;2) I don't think this new technology will stop terrorism;3) I find the idea of the government taking pictures of my genitalia a discomfiting invasion of privacy;4) I find the specific pose a person is forced to take inside the machine -- hands up, as in a mugging -- particularly debasing.In addition to those 4 points, I am also deeply concerned about the wide variety of folks with non-normative bodies. Women who have had breast cancer who are forced to declare their prosthetics. Transfolk needing to do the same. Intersex individuals who get to explain in public their body realities.I also am deeply concerned for folks with ANY history of sexual assault or molestation, because some folks are already reporting that that's how it feels. Especially since in at least one reported case, a dyke was patted down by a guy in an "advanced pat down" because they looked at her frame not her ID, and when she tried to point it out, was not listed to until half way through and they realized she was female.Now, I know a number of friends have already joked on their twitter feeds that the TSA are the most action they get. Not so funny, sorry.If we opt out of the scanners, the advanced pat downs require discerning outer labia, breasts, under balls, asscracks... as a tribal bretheren of mine, Elmo framed as "You need to decide whether you're ok with a random person seeing your bits in a fuzzy black and blue screen, or if you're ok with someone touching you as intimately as a lover."I fly a lot. I have zero interest in the radiation. So I myself will be doing the pat-downs, while blantantly and loudly informing them all of my body reality and the fact that I have a vagina I could be smuggling stuff in. They say the radiation is not a big deal- but cumulative isn't a concern? Then why is the pilot's association boycotting it? I know of some folks doing lingerie protests of the scanners for awareness too.However, there are those who want to do neither.John Tyner stated "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested." Go John.So if you want to protest, or have a case to report to TSA- they will not change the policies without actual complaints- and I don't mean bitching on Twitter and Facebook.Here is the big list of ways to file grievances.The ACLU also wants to here your concerns!This is a better way to spend your energy and time than simply complaining or buying the shirt.