Story highlights Kristin Beck says TSA supervisor called her "him," told male agent to pat her downThe SEAL Team 6 member was on her way to give speech to federal employees(CNN) A self-described "professional traveler," Kristin Beck knows the airport security drill. On Tuesday afternoon, the retired transgender Navy SEAL was bound for Kansas City to give a speech to federal employees about gender sensitivity. It's what she does, since she stopped going by her birth name, Christopher Beck, wrote a book about her life as a member of SEAL Team 6 and was featured in the CNN series, " Lady Valor ." Beck told CNN she entered the security checkpoint, put her bags on the conveyor belt and stepped into the body scanner, as she's done countless times before. She said she waited for one of two Transportation Security Administration agents -- a man and a woman -- to step forward and pat her down.

Source: CNN September 22, 2016 03:11 UTC