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US Adding 3rd Gender To Passports

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If you did that, I think only women would being doing the pat downs, well the gay guys would still choose other guys.

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@vivify said
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2019/06/07/tsa-sued-grandmother-claiming-she-strip-searched-tulsa/1383858001/

The TSA has publicly stated that the agency does not include strip searches in their protocols.

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TSA ??? Who is that? This is why I said that the typical American is clueless about travelling.

The American with gender neutral passport is going somewhere, i presume. The TSA has no jurisdiction elsewhere. So when the American lands in Brazil the customs officials can do whatever they want including stripseach.

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I forgot about pat downs.

Passengers are required to be patted down by an agent of the same gender. I'd guess an easy 99% of the time, agents can tell someone's gender just by looking.

So I guess for that rare 1 percent of the time, listing gender on passports would actually be useful.

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@rajk999 said
TSA ??? Who is that? This is why I said that the typical American is clueless about travelling.

The American with gender neutral passport is going somewhere, i presume. The TSA has no jurisdiction elsewhere. So when the American lands in Brazil the customs officials can do whatever they want including stripseach.
Most countries wouldn't strip search at an airport unless criminal activity was suspected; in that case, the local police would be involved, not the airport.

Either way, Duchess brought up pat-downs, which would have rare instances where someone's gender needs to be confirmed.

So I guess that question is resolved.

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