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>> reporter: 5-year-old jacob lemay is fierce. he loves karate and dogs and spaceships and playing with his sisters. so two sisters and youre the brother, right? >> yeah. >> reporter: were you always the brother? >> im not always. >> reporter: what were you before? >> im a sister. >> reporter: how come it changed? >> because i wanted to be a boy. >> reporter: in the beginning the lemays were raising three girls. but when mia was around 2, she started saying, "im a boy." did you think it was a ph...

Long way away from getting involved with medical treatment. but what does the medical community say? >> reporter: right. the transition has just been calling him jacob, using he and him as pronounce, having him cut his hair short and dress the way he wants to dress as a boy. when it becomes later, when puberty draws closer they would have to make decisions about whether to put him on hormone blockers and eventually much later he could make decision business surgery. with the medical community sa...

Regret asking the issue not being included." what aired was dubbed a whitewash. >> we wanted to find out what we could find about bens more distant relatives. >> reporter: no mention of afflecks family history. the omission only going public after internal emails inside sony were hacked then widely reported on. after hes lobbied by affleck gates writes sonys ceo michael linton, "weve never had anyone try censor or edit what we found. hes a mega-star. what do we do?" linton responds, "i would tak...

Apologizing after asking producers of a pbs documentary to edit a discovery that one of his distant relatives owned slaves. nbcs miguel almaguer reports. we pieced together the lost family histories -- >> reporter: the pps show "finding your roots" traced ben afflecks family back generations. >> im sure that theres so much of peoples history that gets lost over time. >> reporter: the segment featuring the actor/director aired in october. its what didnt make the show thats now making headlines....

And i think weve established that with jacob. >> go ahead. >> if i can add to that. >> sure. >> when we went through this decision and talked to jacob about it and everything we decided to think what if were making the wrong decision and we thought about it both ways and if its the wrong decision and this is a phase, then pace basically we face embarrassment having to reverse our decision but the other way around is much more risky depending on what polls you look at transgender people face atte...

Body. >> jacob is transgender. >> the doctor said that we had a girl. >> clearly a girl. >> yeah. we started thinking of girl names. >> mia was born in 2010. >> go to dada. [ laughter ] >> mia, umm, really wanted to change her clothes a lot. right. constantly, like 12 times a day. >> but then the sweater came and she became obsessed about wearing this one garment for six months straight over the ballet tutu. over the christmas clothes. in hindsight what i think she was trying to do was dispel a ...

They want to go on or come back early in the morning and start fresh. >> ron mott thank you. and turning from home grown terror to kenya, after the university attack that left 148 people dead. the military has claimed to have destroyed two terrorist camps across the border in somalia and kenya is cracking down on recruitment and asking families to report anyone who has gone m.i.a. or showing tendencies and they want to deport 300,000 refugees. they fear the refugee camp is a military hotbed. t...

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We were the first to do it. let this be a lesson to the nation that were not interested in dividing america based on gender, race, social status. >> what do you say about her getting candy for this christmas? >> mia love deserves a big fat candy cane for not only making hift this year -- history this year being the first african-american republican congresswoman but staying true to our values. our country was founded based on liberty and rugged individualism. what mia love wants to do is go to w...