Teenager told she had to strip by airport security to prove she was a girl

Source: n0tpc

28 Comments

  1. Seems like there should be an easier way to verify a passport. It’s not like women having short hair is a new thing.

  2. I’ve seen a fair share of bad stories about tourism in Egypt, doesn’t look like a tourist friendly country at all, a shame really.

  3. SuspiciousFishRunner on

    Add this to the list of travel horror stories in Egypt. Which there seems to be no shortage of.

  4. Substantial_Cat_6063 on

    And thats one of the reasons I don’t have a passport or a “real ID” because I live in Ohio and its scary enough here.

  5. Hey tourists! How about working on actually understanding the culture and country you feel so entitled to vacation in? Normally I’d be completely mortified for this girl (and I really do feel for her). But c’mon- you go to a country where women are second class citizens and what? Expect them to apply different rules to you because you’re white? Get treated special because you don’t know the language of the country you have chosen to spend time in? Idk man. Tourism is a blight and people’s entitlement to turn other people’s homes into a playground causes more harm than good on so many levels.

    Hey, maybe they’ll have better luck in Saudi Arabia or something.

  6. WTF is wrong with Egypt? So what if she is a girl or a boy. She is flying in a plane that does not know and does not care. It makes no difference.

    Avoid Egypt at all cost.

  7. Hurghada Airport is not proper “commercial” the way we use that word.

    It was built in the 60s specifically for tourists. There is literally no other reason to go there – just tourism. No egyptian is using the airline.

    A few dozen resorts have direct hourly busses running from the airport.

    It’s the second busiest airport in the middle east JUST because of tourism

    Considering ALL of that, maybe can like – idk, be more fucking lenient with western tourists? You ain’t Qatar, Egypt – you’ll die without tourism. If i was in charge there i’d be looking to get some positive press out there asap.

    Talk about biting the hand that feeds you jesus.

  8. I honestly have to check whether it is the Onion putting these out and then I see this actually happened and I just quietly shake my head. 🙁

  9. Why the hell do passports even need genders on them? Why does anyone at immigration need to know that? Here’s my name. Here’s a picture of me. Here’s an official government document saying I am who I say I am. We should be done at that point.

  10. No offense, but LGBTQ+ people really have a hard on for thinking that Muslim countries are respectful of them. They seriously need to wake up.

    Why even go there?

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