To be precise: These were the type that look like "tiny curved scissors" with a ~half inch long tip that curves along the end of the finger, not the "squeeze to close" types. [0] (From my googling, maybe "eyebrow trimmers"? I have no idea. In either case, a hilariously impractical weapon, I can see how someone might construe it as "real scissors" if I'm being very generous, but the way we were handled was unacceptable.)

[0] https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-chromium-scissors-scissor-...

This is just one of the many problems with the TSA: their policies are randomly and inconsistently enforced.

I wouldn't put it past them.