That would be logical except when we get to that stage of the process no one has ids or boarding passes. I’ve had the obligatory “got groped by a tsa agent and neither of us liked it” trans exp, ofc. It’s worse that the individual worker there has to hit one of two gender buttons based off looks imo

Yeah, absolutely. It's goofy and flawed and TSA is a such a joke anyway. Traumatizing billions of tired/annoyed people all day every day. Then again, I've only been to the US and back, so not sure how other airports treat people tbh.