Consumer Law
The TSA Is Being Sued by the Parents of a Transgender Teen Who Was Forced to Be Strip-Searched
A transgender teenager from North Carolina was ordered to undergo a strip-search at an airport after she registered a “false positive” at a security checkpoint, according to a lawsuit filed by her mother.
Jamii Erway was 15 in 2019 when when she passed through security with a valid boarding pass at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the lawsuit said. But when she triggered an alert, a Transportation Security Administration screener told her she would have to have her genitals inspected in a private room, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported, citing the suit.
On its website, the TSA advises transgender passengers that a security officer will press a button designating male or female “based on how you present yourself.”
