I know so many people that are genderfluid, orientation-fluid, and otherwise weird that I can't get my head around the idea that gender should matter (oh hell yes it DOES, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms). Besides, I offer myself as proof that though the issues may be different, males can and do still take violent issue with this. And sexual violence (and head games) female on male is less rare than you think; men just don't generally talk about it. Much less report it.
Ultimately, rape and sexual assault (and this is definitely the latter, under color of law) are about power. Your insistence on being "inspected" by a woman is (from my POV) taking *some* of that power back... but I'm not one for half measures. I want freedom to travel with dignity for *everyone*, and I'm not going to sit down or shut up until I get it. (I also want just plain old dignity for everyone, straight, gay, transgender, both, neither, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Pagan, or Pastafarian... and I'm not going to shut up until I get that, either. But the TSA is the thing that's got people fired up right now, so I'm going to whack that mole until I split its skull and force a clue in edgewise...)
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Date: 2010-11-26 06:44 pm (UTC)Ultimately, rape and sexual assault (and this is definitely the latter, under color of law) are about power. Your insistence on being "inspected" by a woman is (from my POV) taking *some* of that power back... but I'm not one for half measures. I want freedom to travel with dignity for *everyone*, and I'm not going to sit down or shut up until I get it. (I also want just plain old dignity for everyone, straight, gay, transgender, both, neither, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Pagan, or Pastafarian... and I'm not going to shut up until I get that, either. But the TSA is the thing that's got people fired up right now, so I'm going to whack that mole until I split its skull and force a clue in edgewise...)