{"id":669,"date":"2016-01-15T21:56:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/?p=669"},"modified":"2016-01-15T21:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:57:23","slug":"oira-meeting-with-tsa-on-scanners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"OIRA Meeting with TSA on Scanners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I met with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a small but important office within the Executive Office of the President, to discuss an upcoming TSA regulation concerning the policies used for the advanced body-imaging scanners.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/?p=654\">The problem with the scanners is that they are cissexist, starting from their pink and blue button user interface through to their assumptions that everyone&#8217;s anatomy is cis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I emphasized that TSA&#8217;s agents are terrible, and ran through some examples of TSA mistreatment I&#8217;ve collected informally over the past few weeks.\u00a0 I recited back to them their training statistics, and how poor they actually are (the last numbers I saw, fewer than 10% of TSA agents have received training on gender identity).\u00a0 They cannot train their way out of the problems their scanners create: the best solution is to reprogram the scanners so that they no longer create more problems for transgender travelers.<\/p>\n<p>I closed the meeting with a warning:\u00a0 if this issue is not adequately addressed in the final rule, I will be filing a Petition for Reconsideration on this issue.\u00a0 That seemed to get their attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I met with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a small but important office within the Executive Office of the President, to discuss an upcoming TSA regulation concerning the policies used for the advanced body-imaging scanners.\u00a0 The problem with the scanners is that they are cissexist, starting from their pink and blue button [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,91],"tags":[23,95],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regs","category-travel","tag-oira","tag-tsa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5pI5m-aN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}