RALEIGH, N.C. - A transgender teenager from North Carolina was ordered to undergo a strip-search at an airport after she registered a "false positive" at a security checkpoint, according to a lawsuit filed by her mother.Jamii Erway was 15 in 2019 when she passed through security with a valid boarding pass at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the lawsuit said.
But when she triggered an alert, a Transportation Security Administration screener told her she would have to have her genitals inspected in a private room, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported, citing the suit.On its website, the TSA advises transgender passengers that a security officer will press a button designating male or female "based on how you present yourself."FILE -.