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How do I leave this country without getting accosted or apprehended by ICE? Or TSA? Or any other authorities? (Any suggestions welcome) (For trans Latina leaving to Europe) (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by Makan@lemmygrad.ml to c/transgender@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12376741

I will be leaving next month.

I see TSA-approved locks.

I don't want to alert trigger-happy guards or whatever.

I will delete all my third-party apps too.

I will also probably just reboot my tablet completely.

Same with my laptop.

Probably my phone too.

Saving my passwords somewhere else too.

I have some other ways to be private that I won't reveal openly unless you want to DM, idk

But honestly, with this new cyclospora going around, I just want to survive the next three or four weeks.

What do you suggest?

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[–] growsomethinggood@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For the TSA body scanner specifically, trans femmes can avoid a pat down by using a menstrual pad, just fyi!

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do you mean exactly?

[–] growsomethinggood@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The way that the full body scanner works, is someone looks at you visually first and genders you (entirely separate from gender markers on IDs). If you pass as a woman, they hit the woman button which tells the TSA agent looking at the body scans to expect things like bras but not to expect external genitals. So if a trans femme without bottom surgery goes through, she gets flagged for having a penis and another TSA agent has to make sure it's not a concealed explosive or something, meaning said trans femme gets groped in the process. However, if the TSA agent sees a scan of a woman wearing a menstrual pad instead, that's just a cis woman on her period, no pat-down required.

Alternatively, if someone passes as a man, they will get flagged if they are wearing a bra. So planning to navigate TSA the easiest may involve using gendered clothing to unambiguously pass as well.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Gotcha

Thanks, this really works for me.

I haven't done HRT yet but I will next month hopefully.