Once again, this is completely obnoxious and pathetic on the part of the TSA. Enough is enough.
Lori Dorn wrote about the experience on her blog. She described how, after walking through an image scanner at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, she was asked by a TSA agent to step aside to have her breasts examined.
"I explained to the agent that I was a breast cancer patient and had a bilateral mastectomy in April and had tissue expanders put in to make way for reconstruction at a later date," Dorn wrote. She said she explained that because of this, she was not comfortable having her breasts touched.
Dorn asked the agent if she could retrieve a medical card from her pocket which described the expanders and included contact information for her doctor. But the agent called over a supervisor who denied the request, and said the breast exam had to take place.
According to Dorn, the supervisor added, loudly enough for other passengers to hear: "And if we don't clear you, you don't fly."
