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That's exactly the way it is... er... was. Only women screeners screened women.

Personally, I don't see what the big deal is. I've been through airport security at least 20 times in the past year and I've never had a problem with it. For those of you that don't know what the process is like, typically you walk up to the check-in counter and get your boarding pass. You must show a government issued photo ID to get your pass printed. You hand your checked luggage to the attendant and it goes off somewhere to be screened and occationally searched. Next you walk up to the security checkpoint. At this time, a TSA agent will examine your boarding pass and your photo ID again to make sure you are heading down the proper terminal for your airline. Then you stand in line to go through the metal detectors. The easiest thing to do is just dump everything you have on you into a bucket and send it through the xray. They will suggest that you remove your shoes, but tell you that you are not required to. If you don't remove them, they will pull you out of line and wipe your shoes with some chemical sniffer device. The easiest thing to do is just take them off. You walk through the metal detector, get your stuff that went through the xray and go on your way. Nothing to it.

Occationally, and this is very rare, they will randomly pull someone out of line and pat them down. I have never had this happen to me, but a female co-worker of mine has. She said a female TSA agent wearing gloves patted her down including around the breasts. She said the agent used the backs of her hands to do it, so it wasn't a groping or anything like that, and it wasn't bad at all.

I always hear people complaining about airport security, but I find that if you just do what they ask you, they won't see you as suspicious and you'll be through it in no time.