Reported here about this woman:
Miernik said the worst experience she had came when her 7-year-old granddaughter was at the airport with her. When her granddaughter saw the pat down, “She went ‘Grandmama, they touched you on your special girl spots.’”
Miernik was mortified, as was her granddaughter, she said.. She believes the pat downs are unnecessarily intrusive, and she hasn’t even experienced the “more aggressive” pat downs the TSA started employing Oct. 29.
“If this happened to me in college on a date, I would have called the police,” Miernik said.
According to the US Code here, the TSA's mandate involves security for all transportation which comes under the jurisdiction of the federal Dept. of Transportation, not just airline transportation:
How long will it be before the invasive procedures of the TSA affect every other way we get around in this country?
