The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is ushering in a new policy that makes U.S. airport security screening transgender-friendly.
The federal agency is implementing the policy backed by what it calls a new “gender-neutral algorithm.”
According to the agency, it has invested $18 million into the new screening system, which it has dubbed Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT), but it will not provide any details about what’s behind the technology.
“For security reasons, we cannot provide changes to algorithms or specifics on how the technology works,” Daniel Velez, a TSA spokesman told The Epoch Times in a written statement on Jan. 4.
A Transportation Security Administration agent handing back a passenger’s driving license at an airport security checkpoint in 2022. (Courtesy of TSA)
Velez did confirm for The Epoch Times that under the new algorithm, the TSA has eliminated its long use of blue buttons for males and pink buttons for females to trigger gender-based scans….