{"id":22123,"date":"2025-12-22T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=22123"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:41:02","slug":"did-tsa-finally-grab-the-wrong-groin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/did-tsa-finally-grab-the-wrong-groin\/","title":{"rendered":"Did TSA Finally Grab the Wrong Groin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/blog\/did-tsa-finally-grab-the-wrong-groin\/\">Did TSA Finally Grab the Wrong Groin<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By James Bovard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TSA-tenth-amendment-center-jpb-quote-graphic-e1766498024830.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TSA-tenth-amendment-center-jpb-quote-graphic-e1766498024830.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22129\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week over the abuse she suffered prior to a recent flight.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/evitaduffy_1\/status\/2001632809002398126\">Writing on X <\/a>on Thursday, she called for abolishing TSA:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/evitaduffy_1\/status\/2001632809002398126\">Writing on X<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I\u2019m pregnant and didn\u2019t feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner. The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evitaduffy_1\/status\/2001632809002398126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/evitaduffy_1\"><\/a>Some people responded to her broadside by urging her to tell her complaint to her father. But as she repeatedly patiently explained, TSA is part of the Department of Homeland Security, not the Transportation Department.&nbsp; No wonder TSA seems to oppose transportation \u2013 or at letting people take a flight without running a boneheaded bureaucratic gauntlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many women responded to Duffy-Alfonso\u2019s tweet with their own experience of TSA abuse:<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/missiville_\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As a bilateral cochlear implant recipient, I have to opt for a pat-down screening. Even after informing TSA officers about my devices before screening and my limitations to understanding speech in noisy environment\u2014 they have been rude, impatient, and have deliberately swiped\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Ellen Streiff (@EllenStreiff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EllenStreiff\/status\/2001656972379119638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Agree, I have had multiple bad experiences including bleeding from rough handling.<\/p>&mdash; Dragonflynda (@Dragonflynda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dragonflynda\/status\/2001740552547819757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They never swabbed my palms until I was carrying a baby \ud83d\ude11<\/p>&mdash; Sour Patch Lyds \u0646 (@sourpatchlyds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sourpatchlyds\/status\/2001774698456027343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh Momma,<br>Thousands (maybe 100s or millions) of Momma&#39;s feel this!<br><br>Wait &#39;til your child is 8 and &quot;tests positive&quot; for &quot;residual explosive sediment&quot; on her hands (allegedly). <br>Pro-tip: kids can&#39;t be frisked. Their mother is.<br><br>TSA is an invasive joke.<\/p>&mdash; TheSaltyMom (@SaltyMommaC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaltyMommaC\/status\/2001698292649070887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, I\u2019m in a wheelchair and have to do this every\u2026.damn\u2026.TIME!!<\/p>&mdash; Katie Brooker (@lotusrosekat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lotusrosekat\/status\/2002716430920475121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many commenters slammed Duffy-Alfonso for failing to arrive at the airport a full two hours before her flight. &nbsp;Since when did an inept federal agency become entitled to blight much of the day for innocent travelers? &nbsp;&nbsp;Other commenters sneered that she should have taken the bus. &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AuntieFah420\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AuntieFah420\">@AuntieFah420 responded: <\/a>\u201cEntitled little bitch. STFU\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cry harder you spoiled twat<\/p>&mdash; Randy\u203c\ufe0f (@RandyHeyyyy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandyHeyyyy\/status\/2002556817336078369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the people who scoffed at her complaint sounded like Trump supporters. Some commenters blamed Muslims for all of TSA\u2019s abuses \u2013 since if not for the \u201cReligion of Peace,\u201d there would presumably never be any threat to air travel safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The backlash produced by the Duffy-Alfonson reminded me of the outrage proved by a &nbsp;2017 piece I wrote for USA Today piece headlined, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/11\/17\/thanksgiving-travel-trumps-holiday-gift-more-invasive-airport-security-james-bovard-column\/871080001\/\">Th<\/a>a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/11\/17\/thanksgiving-travel-trumps-holiday-gift-more-invasive-airport-security-james-bovard-column\/871080001\/\">nksgi<\/a>v<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/11\/17\/thanksgiving-travel-trumps-holiday-gift-more-invasive-airport-security-james-bovard-column\/871080001\/\">ing travel: Trump\u2019s holiday gift is more invasive airport security<\/a>.\u201d TSA became abusive and intrusive after Trump first became president. My article discussed the case of Jenna McFarlane, a 56-year old teacher. A TSA agent told her \u201cto spread my legs wider\u201d and proceeded to \u201ctouch my vagina four times with the side of her hand,\u201d as she formally&nbsp;complained to TSA afterwards.&nbsp; One Twitter user sneered: \u201cJenna McFarlane is just upset that it was only four times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had been bashing TSA ever since it was created in 2002 by President George W. Bush. But \u201cdue diligence\u201d was no <a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/18\/trump-fans-rush-to-defend-tsa-abuses\/\">impediment to readers enraged by<\/a> any criticism of Trump policies.&nbsp; I was tagged as a pussy snowflake, libtard, moron, &nbsp;brain dead, clown, left wing bigot, dopey liberal, leftist loon,&nbsp;\u201cleader of the idiots,\u201d and stinkin\u2019 libertarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jjpb-2017-hostile-comments-tsa-Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-09-21-42-Trump-Fans-Rush-to-Defend-TSA-Abuses-James-Bovard-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"808\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jjpb-2017-hostile-comments-tsa-Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-09-21-42-Trump-Fans-Rush-to-Defend-TSA-Abuses-James-Bovard-808x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jjpb-2017-hostile-comments-tsa-Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-09-21-42-Trump-Fans-Rush-to-Defend-TSA-Abuses-James-Bovard-808x1024.png 808w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jjpb-2017-hostile-comments-tsa-Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-09-21-42-Trump-Fans-Rush-to-Defend-TSA-Abuses-James-Bovard-631x800.png 631w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jjpb-2017-hostile-comments-tsa-Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-09-21-42-Trump-Fans-Rush-to-Defend-TSA-Abuses-James-Bovard-118x150.png 118w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jjpb-2017-hostile-comments-tsa-Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-09-21-42-Trump-Fans-Rush-to-Defend-TSA-Abuses-James-Bovard-768x973.png 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jjpb-2017-hostile-comments-tsa-Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-09-21-42-Trump-Fans-Rush-to-Defend-TSA-Abuses-James-Bovard-1212x1536.png 1212w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jjpb-2017-hostile-comments-tsa-Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-09-21-42-Trump-Fans-Rush-to-Defend-TSA-Abuses-James-Bovard-1616x2048.png 1616w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jjpb-2017-hostile-comments-tsa-Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-09-21-42-Trump-Fans-Rush-to-Defend-TSA-Abuses-James-Bovard-scaled.png 2020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;I was surprised to see so many people\u2019s devotion to the president lead them to absolve an agency that has long abused Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her tweet slapdown, Duffy-Alfonso declared, &#8220;Perhaps things would have gone more smoothly if I\u2019d handed over my biometric data to a random private company (CLEAR). Then I could enjoy the special privilege of waiting in a shorter line to be treated like a terrorist in my own country.&#8221;  That resonated with my TSA experiences in the last couple years. When I was flying out of Dallas International Airport in 2023, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignright has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TSA-Clear-JPB-photo-november-2023-20231108_092705.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"18742\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TSA-Clear-JPB-photo-november-2023-20231108_092705-672x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TSA-Clear-JPB-photo-november-2023-20231108_092705-672x800.jpg 672w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TSA-Clear-JPB-photo-november-2023-20231108_092705-126x150.jpg 126w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TSA-Clear-JPB-photo-november-2023-20231108_092705.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(c) James Bovard 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw two women loitering behind a roped off section for CLEAR, a new biometric surveillance program that works with 35 airports and coordinates with TSA. CLEAR involves travelers standing in photo kiosks that compare their faces with a federal database of photos from passport applications, driver\u2019s licenses, and other sources. The Washington Post warned that airport facial recognition systems are \u201cAmerica\u2019s biggest step yet to normalize treating our faces as data that can be stored, tracked and, inevitably, stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the CLEAR program is purportedly voluntary, TSA agents at Washington National Airport recently threatened long delays for any passenger who refused to be photographed by CLEAR, including U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR). Merkley said that TSA falsely claimed there were signs notifying people that the facial scans are optional. But the clock is ticking down on seeking voluntary cooperation. TSA chief David Pekoske announced in early 2023 that \u201ceventually\u2026 we will <a href=\"https:\/\/epic.org\/dont-take-it-at-face-value-why-tsas-implementation-of-facial-recognition-is-more-dangerous-than-you-think\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">require biometrics<\/a> across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I raised my phone camera, snapped a few shots of the women, and the howling commenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d screamed a young woman wearing a CLEAR jacket. \u201cYou can\u2019t take my photo!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut you\u2019re scanning people\u2019s eyeballs,\u201d I replied. What could be more intrusive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t matter because you can\u2019t take our photo \u2013 it\u2019s not allowed!\u201d She sounded as if I had desecrated a federal temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With her three-inch artificial fingernails, I wondered if she planned to audition for a Dracula movie. Her colleague speedily exited, perhaps to summon police to end my assault. But if airport officials had sought to seize those photos, they would have faced a legal ruckus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was flying out of Palm Beach Airport in Florida in October, the TSA checkpoint was structured so that the default was for every traveler to get their photo taken for CLEAR. A middle-aged TSA agent got perturbed when I wouldn\u2019t stand in the right spot by&nbsp; his desk for the photo.&nbsp; I said I didn\u2019t want my photo taken. \u201cYou don\u2019t want your picture taken?!\u201d he responded testily.&nbsp; \u201cThen I need to see your identification.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I handed him my driver\u2019s license &nbsp;and he held it up a couple different times as he looked past it to see if I falsely claiming to be someone TSA agents ritually hated. &nbsp;&nbsp;He took my boarding pass and looked at it intently \u2013 almost like he hadn\u2019t done so well on&nbsp; his \u201cHooked on Phonics\u201d refresher course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He finally deigned that I could proceed to the frickin\u2019 Whole Body Scanner but I was supposed to have a sense of shame for failing to trust Leviathan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duffy-Alfonso\u2019s condemnation of TSA is refreshing regardless of whether it spurs the Trump administration to repent.&nbsp; But the outrage that her comment evoked on Twitter does raise the question: How many Trump voters abandoned their opposition to unleashing federal agencies after Trump was back in the Oval Office?&nbsp; Since Trump is in the Oval Office, are private citizens presumptively the villains whenever they clash with federal agencies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TSA abuses will generate a new torrent of online complaints between now and New Year\u2019s Day. Perhaps we will learn whether the Trump White House gives a damn about to any abuse of government power that doesn\u2019t specifically target Trump supporters or donors,&nbsp;&nbsp; Unfortunately, Trump and all his billionaire buddies fly on official or private jets that are exempt from TSA abuses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did TSA Finally Grab the Wrong Groin? By James Bovard Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week over the abuse she suffered prior to a recent flight.&nbsp; Writing on X on Thursday, she called for abolishing TSA: Writing on X I nearly missed my flight this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3895,3896,4722,4724,4723,76],"class_list":["post-22123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clear","tag-dallas","tag-duffy-trump-abuse","tag-fingernails","tag-palm-beach-airport","tag-tsa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did TSA Finally Grab the Wrong Groin? - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pregnant daughter of Transportation Secretary bitterly complained about TSA abuse on Twitter\/X. 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