The recent outcry over the TSA giving two equally offensive options to travellers — a revealing full body scan or a full body intrusive groping — will inevitably result in an outcry and backlash from flight crews and frequent flyers. I think there might be an interesting lawsuit in the making, too.
The TSA claims the groping is done by agents of the same gender of the person being searched. Will they also certify that 100% of those doing the pat-downs are heterosexual? I mean, it seems that the logical reason for assigning agents of the same gender as the person being searched is to avoid claims of sexual assault by TSA agents… they don’t want it to appear that, for example, a male TSA agent is feeling up a pretty young woman. Can they, will they, therefore certify that the FEMALE TSA agent is not a lesbian enjoying the process a bit too much? The conundrum is that they are probably legally forbidden from disclosing the sexual preference of a TSA agent, or even asking about it, so… Class action lawsuit(s) ahead? In the words of a great conservo-American, “You betcha.”