Transphobia at Canberra Airport
Sorry in advance about the vent post but the behaviour of the security staff at Canberra Airport is flat-out unacceptable.
I’m on a day trip to Canberra for work and I’ve never experienced this before at an Australian airport, and frankly I expected better of Canberra.
The density scanner for whatever reason flagged my shin as having something there, that shouldn’t have been and the male security staff unable to determine my gender asked and I said female. He then misgenders me and says to the female staff “he needs to pat down and prefers female.”
The female security worker then refused to pat me down and told me to walk through the metal detector which then pinged for an unknown reason. She still refuses to pat me down and insists I have something in my pockets when I don’t. I then get sent through the density scanner a second time and it comes out clean.
This behaviour is blatant transphobia, was humiliating, and was completely unacceptable.
I’ve always found Canberra to be a very accepting city whenever I’ve visited but Canberra Airport really needs to do better.
Rant over.
