All a transgender woman wanted to do is fly to MSP
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Shadi Petosky, a cartoon and comic writer and producer, regularly flies between Minneapolis and Los Angeles, she says. She was stuck in Miami yesterday, trying to get a flight to Minneapolis, because she's a transgender woman and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wouldn't let her on a plane.
Petosky revealed her "reality", as she calls it but that wasn't good enough. She tweeted her entire ordeal, giving the rest of us a chance to see a day in the life of a trans.
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