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Many of us were saying. that you cant break us apart. the reaction of the trans community was a mixture of anger, frustration, disappointment, confusion. >> i think that you cannot legislate acceptance of transgender people when people -- when the general society has such a fundamental misunderstanding of what being transgender is. >> when you start to say that people who deserve rights are people who look a certain way or act a certain way based on other peoples acceptance of masculinity and fe...

Later. which was so contrary to what so many of us were saying. that you cant break us apart. the reaction of the trans community was a mixture of anger, frustration, disappointment, confusion. >> i think that you cannot legislate acceptance of transgender people when people -- when the general society has such a fundamental misunderstanding of what being transgender is. >> when you start to say that people who deserve rights are people who look a certain way or act a certain way based on other ...

>> when you start to say that people who deserve rights are people who look a certain way or act a certain way based on other peoples acceptance of masculinity and femininity, you lose sight that many of us cant fit into those boxes and you fall into the same trap of being judged based on other peoples perceptions. i was furious. there was a significant amount of backlash towards susan. there is still a very vocal component of the community that feels that susan is a sellout, that susan is a tra...

Act a certain way based on other peoples acceptance of masculinity and femininity, you lose sight that many of us cant fit into those boxes and you fall into the same trap of being judged based on other peoples perceptions. i was furious. there was a significant amount of backlash towards susan. there is still a very vocal component of the community that feels that susan is a sellout, that susan is a traitor. i do believe she has made the journey for herself lonelier than it has to be. and that ...

Effort as a format to look at how were going to go about doing the kandahar campaign. and frankly, part of our problem is two-fold. first, weve already set down a line of time that we have to follow to do everything to get out. and i think that may be a problem for general mcchrystal. sendly, we still have not been able to establish an understanding of where the taliban is actually operating out of, and what theyre going to do. and theres two reasons for that. first, youve got to look at things ...

Is, to enact it, have history take place, have people experience it and perhaps perceptions will improve. otherwise, you will never escape the downside. >> chris: juan, do you have something to add to that. >> i like that argument very much. the natural extension of that logic is that if you dont support the bill now, you lose in november. but you need this bill and you need it to have a more positive perception when its available to people and you can say the insurance industry is now being reg...

Unemployment rose to 10%. >> yes. >> thats what people see and they feel. our numbers show today that one in six of all americans is under employed. you can have a governor happy about saving a few jobs here and there, the economy and unemployment has gone way down south with stimulus. so if you are talking about perceptions, its obvious that the stimulus has had very negative effect, if anything on perception. >> chris: all right. we have a feeling we have to leave and i have a feeling we are n...

Take place, have people experience it and perhaps perceptions will improve. otherwise, you will never escape the downside. >> chris: juan, do you have something to add to that. >> i like that argument very much. the natural extension of that logic is that if you dont support the bill now, you lose in november. but you need this bill and you need it to have a more positive perception when its available to people and you can say the insurance industry is now being regulated and you are protected a...

>> yes. >> thats what people see and they feel. our numbers show today that one in six of all americans is under employed. you can have a governor happy about saving a few jobs here and there, the economy and unemployment has gone way down south with stimulus. so if you are talking about perceptions, its obvious that the stimulus has had very negative effect, if anything on perception. >> chris: all right. we have a feeling we have to leave and i have a feeling we are not going to settle this di...

That and send him into the country and seem relatable. i remember bush going through this when he was in the white house too much. so the obama white house looking to see the same. >> this president has claimed about feeling like hes in a bubble and so isolating. im sure this meets his approval. >> more fun for him and he gets to talk to actual voters. is it going to change that much? these are just optics. i dont know that it fixes the problems he has with congress or peoples perceptions that w...