Transgender Left Sobbing After Incident with TSA Agent Reminds the World of the Truth: Report

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The Transportation Security Administration is — not unjustly — one of the least popular federal agencies there is. I don’t know if they do polls on what bureaus Americans loath the most, but I’m pretty sure that only the Internal Revenue Service would pip them to post. (And, in fairness, Democrats like taxes, whereas no one likes the TSA.)

The TSA is slow, ineffective and a waste of taxpayer money. Its employees are the unmotivated, cantankerous gatekeepers at the end of a 45-minute security checkpoint line who make us take off our shoes and ensure there’s nothing in there. (And, it turns out, that’s not very useful at preventing a footwear-based terror attack, anyhow.)

However, as it turns out, they’re sometimes useful — even if, perhaps, they’re being awful at the same time.

I point you to these Sunday headlines from two sources generally considered to be right-of-center, the New York Post and the U.K.’s Daily Mail.

The Post: “Trans woman left sobbing in JFK airport after TSA agent hit her testicles: report.”

The Daily Mail: “Transgender woman posts sobbing selfie in JFK bathroom after claiming female TSA agent punched her testicles and left her in extreme pain.”

You may conceivably notice a bit of, um, dissonance between reality and the words being used to describe it.

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