Think Pinker

There has been a lot of talk lately about the TSA’s new full body scans and aggressive pat downs, but this story really takes the cake. Three decade flight attendant and breast cancer survivor Cathy Bossi was recently forced to show her prosthetic breast to TSA agents.

The incident happened after Bossi had been “randomly” selected to pass through the new TSA full body scanner. Once she did, she was then lead to a room where she received a pat down that she describes as very aggressive. When a TSA agent felt her prosthetic breast, Bossi was questioned about it and after telling the agent what it was, she was told she would have to show it.

This has prompted Bossi to seek legal council and it is not immediately known if she did in fact have to show the prosthetic breast or not. According to regulations, the TSA agents may touch and question these and other types of prosthetics, but may not remove them.

It seems as though all this “enhanced safety” is being targeted at the wrong group of people. At any rate, there needs to be a crackdown on the process as you would think that a breast cancer survivor who has obviously been through a great deal with breast cancer treatments and a mastectomy, should not be receiving the full brunt of the TSA’s wrath.

For the TSA’s part, they are said to be looking into the matter. Hopefully they look long and hard as this is a situation that should have never happened in the first place and will hopefully not ever happen again.

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