Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming People Among First, Most Affected by War on Terror's Biometrics Craze

Since when did travelers’ gender become the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) business? Since at least September of 2003, when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an advisory warning against “Al-Qaeda’s continued efforts to plan multiple attacks against the US and US interests overseas.” The advisory included a list of potential terrorism targets, a mention of recent arrests of unnamed terror suspects and this warning: “Male bombers may dress as females in order to discourage scrutiny.”
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THIS IS SO STUPID! they will look at your passport and scrutinise people MORE if they don’t align with that anyway, and...
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“Male bombers may dress as females in order to discourage scrutiny.” This sentence is so fucking transphobic. It’s...
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