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Agent gave her pliers to remove nipple ring before boarding plane
LOS ANGELES - A Texas woman, who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane, called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil-rights investigation.
"I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Mandi Hamlin said at a news conference. "My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way."
Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems.
The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin's chest, the Dallas-area resident said.
Hamlin said she told the woman she was wearing nipple piercings.
The agent then called over her male colleagues, one of whom said she would have to remove the jewelry, Hamlin said.
She said she could not remove them and asked whether she could instead display her pierced breasts in private to the female agent.
But several other male officers told her she could not board her flight until the jewelry was out, she said. She was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring.
"Still crying, she informed the TSA officer that she could not remove it without the help of pliers, and the officer gave a pair to her," said Hamlin's attorney, Gloria Allred, reading from a letter she sent Thursday to the director of the TSA's Office of Civil Rights and Liberties.
She was scanned again and was allowed to board even though she still was wearing a belly-button ring.
Allred said a lawsuit is possible if the TSA does not apologize.
Source: Associated Press Mar. 28, 2008 12:00 AM
Oregon Man Says He's Pregnant
BEND, Ore. -- An Oregon man is five months pregnant, according to a national magazine.
Thomas Beatie, who used to be a woman, appeared in the most recent issue of The Advocate, a magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender readers, Portland, Ore., television station KPTV reported.
Beatie wrote the article, which includes a picture of him while he was 22 weeks pregnant. According to the story, he went through a sex change, but decided only to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy.
Beatie was able to keep the reproductive organs he was born with. The article said he stopped getting the injections and was able to get pregnant.
Beatie, who lives in Bend, wrote he was once pregnant with triplets, but the pregnancy was life-threatening and he lost the fetuses. Now, Beatie said he and his wife, Nancy, are expecting a little girl in July.
In the article, Beatie described some of the challenges he and his wife have faced -- they said doctors won't treat them. The couple met 10 years ago and Nancy is not able to have children.
He wrote in The Advocate that their situation "sparks legal, political and social unknowns."
The couple were out of town Monday and unable to speak with the station. Read the full story by Thomas at http://advocate.com/issue_story_ektid52664.asp
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This is really cool and interesting. 207 people suddenly freeze in Grand Central Station New York City. It is a wild experiment for sure. The reactions from those who wittness this are great to watch and hear.
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