just simply loving his family loving the child is critical and key and that s just everything right now. it s how you treat people how you allow these kids to just develop and be who they are. the other thing that we know is no one should be legislating identity and no one should allow what does that sunshine. what you teed up is many places around the country transgendered people get discriminated. we don t have a non-discrimination poll. i don t have that for even gay people. in schools we have anti-bullying policy or something with sexual orientation that does not include gender identity. there s more states in this country who are protected by sexual identity and not transgender people. i want to get the congressman in here. you said you learned new vocabulary. tell me an example of how you learned new vocabulary here. well you know in your discussion about trying to identify gender you know i think historically you ve been looking at gender as if it were a binary s
why we continue to do so much labeling work when we are dealing with transgender issues and politics. what is it about the notion of needing to label people? i think people strive to become identified because the world doesn t fit their picture of themselves. we invent labels in a way to distinguish ourselves from each other. sometimes they fractionalize ourselves. and our gender is on a whole new frontier, and the next level, we re talking about human rights beyond the labels and bringing us together on a much broader scale. we could hope that would be the place we were going. yeah, we all want a continuum. and we have these two boxes, this binary system. we get to choose one or the other. that s not really the case. the reality is that we live on a