Who is really a boy or a girl who feels shes a boy. Is it just a stage or can a child be born this way . Its a sensitive question that rita braver will explore enour sunday morning cover story. Mati is only six years old but physically born a boy, has always insisted she is a girls. You knew. How did you know . I just ahead in our sunday morning cover story why more transgender kids are coming out of the shadows. Cowan if only you had a back stage pass all get a sneak peek at the tony awards. Fortunately our mo rocca has one for you. Xmen star hugh jackman is turning in his claws for tap shoes. To host the tony awards. Only award show thats live. You ghetto see live theater being celebrated live. Ahead on sunday morning, the tony awards. Cowan you might think you know Minnie Driver after her long career, she hag another side as she sells anna werner. Mini driver first gained fame as the Love Interest in Goodwill Hunting but her latest role is the most challenging of her career. The hardest thing i had done, it was hardest job ive ever had. Getting to know the multitalented Minnie Driver later on sundae morning. Island gem is on travel itinerary with Martha Teichner as our guide. Just off the georgia coast there is a Beautiful Island where wild horses graze beside a vast ruined mansion, the you cant help but wonder about such a place and who lives there. Including the woman. I found the horse in back of the sand dunes on a christmas walk. Cumberland island. Cowan le basketball as its played in paris. And Steve Hartman on a mission. Tyne daly has thoughts about the actors craft and more. Here are the headlines for this sunday morning the 8th of june 2014. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl says he was tortured today New York Times reports that he told military officials in germany that hejw6ez beaten and held ina small cage after trying to escape. Also reported hes not ready to be reunited with his family. Here at home the fbi says its investigating multiple threats against bergdahls parents. Actor and comedian tracy morgan is in Critical Condition at new jersey hospital after an accident on the new jersey turnpike. Sixvehicle crash early saturday also killed one person. The driver of the truck that rammed morgans chauffeured bus faces multiple charges. There is historic meeting at the vatican today the palestinian will pray with the hope. An effort to pause the politics and push the middle east Peace Process forward. There was no coronation at the Belmont Stakes on saturday but there was controversy. The much hoped for and hyped California Chrome was a fourth place tie on saturday. Tonalist took the win. California chrome coowner called that a cowards way out. In los angeles, the kings came from two goals down to beat the new york rangers in over time they now lead stanley cup finals two games to none. Now for todays forecast, storms will thunder across the nations mid section, northeast will be pretty nice, west will be sunny and hot. The week ahead more storms and wet weather for most, but southwest will remain nice and sunny. Coming up broadways big night. ,,,,,,,,,, cowan our cover story deals with children battling with a very grown up issue. Gender identity. Boys or girls believing theyre the opposite sex. Saying they were born this way. Here is rita braver. She could be any 12yearold girl. Hanging out with her mom and sister. But zoe was biologically born a boy. How did you handle it when people related to you as a boy . Yeah, i was like, no, im not a boy. Im a girl. Like, i like the color pink, i breathe like a color im not a boy. First reaction is fear. Not because who she is presenting to be. But of those around us, what are other people going to say . How are they going to treat her . Those are the scary things, what kind of life is she going to have. But zoes mother wont be using last names of the family in this story. Felt she had no choice. A single mom two years ago she accepted zoes decision to live as openly transgender girl. Zoes family and her childhood friends in her town near los angeles have been supportive. But survey of nearly 300 transgender youth found that 89 reported being harassed in school. Going back to the room back here. Z okaye, too, has encured cruel treatment from her school mates. The kids that do seem like theyre good kids they make fun of me. Yeah, just tell us how you is a specialist in the care of transgendered youth at childrens hospital, los angeles. She says that her patients have a condition known as gender dysphoria. The words that we use to describe persistent, discomfort about incongruence between the gender your assigned verse the way that you you internally experience gender. Estimates on the number of Transgender Americans ranges high as. 5 of the adult population. Or about three quarters of a Million People. But more and more young people are emerging as transgender. I see between one and five new trans kids a week. The growth is tremendous like 330 increase over the year of 2013. Just phenomenal. What do you think is happening . Are there more transgender children . Its not so much more there are more, its that trans people are coming out earlier, we also know that among trans people there are high rates of depression, anxiety, social isolation, suicide attempts, all of these things we see dramatically increase in trans youth. But young people that ive seen who socially transition in child had have support of their family this have very different experience. This is this implant now there is new medical treatment for young people like zoe. This is enough to last a year or longer. Doctors have recently started administering drugs that block puberty. The medicine every day in to the persons body. Keeps them from developing unwanted adult characteristics like facial hair for transgender girls or breasts in transgender boys. I decided that i was they can be reversed. But the effects of hormones what transgender youth can take later to look more male or female are often not reversible. Dr. Olson says by then her patients, like dennis, are not going back. In terms of making these changes so that you can go through life as a boy, what is the upside that have for you . Upside is that ill get to have part of the body i do want. At 13, started taking the hoar hone, testosterone as well as puberty blockers. He says he is always felt like a boy, though he was born biologically a girl. But he says being trans has not been easy. Its been a difficult process because no one really would want to be trans or enjoy it. Then theres the prospect of sex change surgery further down the road. Is that something that is a little bit scary to you . Yeah, it really is. Like how much pain it will cause. There are practical problems as whelm california, where he lives was the first state to pass a law specifically allowing Transgender School children to use bathrooms, locker rooms and enoplia on sports team of the gender this they choose. Some School Districts in california with opponents of the Pacific Justice institute, a conservative legal group, claim the law could put an unfair burden on other children. Youre saying under this law that 13yearold or 14yearold girl in a locker room has to change and dress be naked in front of say 16yearold boy simply because 16yearold boy is a biological boy but inside has mental condition and thinks that hes a girl. This is ludicrous and really unreasonable. He argues that while transgender kids should be completed with compassion they should use separate facility. His response use the bathroom, too. He has other issues, his parents are separated, and while his mother and brother have always been supportive his father was not. Finally his mom sent his father a letter. Said pretty much, work with us or you cant be in our lives because the child is not supported doesnt flourish. Dad looked at that decided, well, i can have a son or nothing. Nobody knows what were going through they have today his father, mike, has joined his mother in support group for parents of transgender kids. I was in a lot of fear and anxiety and especially when my kid came out he acknowledges that he hired series of therapists in an effort to convince him to live as a girl all to no avail. I was totally in the wrong area, spent lots of money trying to fix a kid that wasnt really broken. Parents are beginning to heed the wishes of their children at ever younger ages. The 6yearold happily jiming with her younger brother is mati originally named mateas. You mom told me when you were born everybody thought you were a boy except you, right . What did you think . I was a girl. You knew. Yeah. How did you know . I just i figured it out. Matis parents, christie and enrique when she was younger than two going clothes shopping, for example. Wed go to the boy section and mati would start directly going to the girls section. Matis parents say she was miserable when treated as a boy. By the time she entered kindergarten in san diego last year, they felt they had to enroll her as a girl. You know that some people are going to see this story on television and say, my gosh, they should have waited. They should have insisted on waiting longer. Why didnt you wait longer . She was in pain. I dont see that there was really another option. She was uncomfortable, she was unhappy. You cant see a child suffer like that. Nothing has been done that cant be undone. People that would say maybe its too early we should have waited, what did we have to lose at this point . Shes happier. Like all parents we spoke to for this story, christie and enrique told us they decided to go public because they want to help other families facing the same issues. I also want mati to know that its nothing that cant be talked about but also let her know she shouldnt be ashamed or afraid to be who she is. Doctors say some children who identify themselves as the opposite of their physical gender, do change their minds as they get older there is little data on how often that occurs. So far mati shows no signs of reconsidering. Have you ever thought maybe sometimes, gee, might be fun to go back and dress like a boy and be more like a boy . I dont want to. You know that how do you feel . Like a girl. Anything youd like to say for maybe other children who people say, oh, youre a boy, but they know that theyre a girl, anything youd like to tell them. Let them choose. Let them choose. We asked people a question, how much money do you thin y . Then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. I was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. Im going to have to rethink this thing. Its hard to imagine how much well need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more. So maybe we need to approach things differently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. If we want to be ready for a longer retirement. The bhersheys smores, together is hothe unmistakable taste that reminds us that life is delicious. Cowan now a page from sunday morning almanac, june 8, 1959. A day that gave new meaning to the phrase, the mail must go through. For that was the day 3,000 pieces of u. S. Mail were delivered not by mailman, but by missile. Already practiced transporting mail by truck and train and plane, the post office decided to embrace the missile age. Two metal containers filled with letters were placed inside a missile which was then carried aboard the submarine ussbabaro off the coast of florida. The unmanned missile was launched from the deck. In 2 minutes later the jet powered missile landed at the Naval Auxiliary Air station in mayport, florida, where no the post master general of the United States, Arthur Summerfield unholded the letters ail signed by him and enclosed in official missile mail envelopes. Addressed to a whos who of dignitaries. Summerfield was standing by when president Dwight Eisenhower received his letter the next day delivered by mail carrier. You receipt marks historic milestone in use of guided missiles for communications between the peoples of the earth, his message proudly began. Went on to promise the great progress being made in guided missilery will be utilized in every practical way in the delivery of the United States mail. Well, no. As it turned out that first test of missile mail was also the last. This impracticality only obvious to the post office expost facto. Just ahead i can spot the whiteness of a bone summertime on an island oasis. [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. [ birds squawking ] my mom makes airplane engines that can talk. [ birds squawking ] my mom makes hospitals you can hold in your hand. My mom can print Amazing Things right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] my mom makes trains that are friends with trees. [ train whistle blows ] my mom works at ge. My mom works at ge. Be a sound sleeper, or. L you a mouth breather . Well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38 more than allergy medicines alone. So you can breathe and sleep. Shut your mouth and sleep right. Breathe right. Fill their bowl with the meaty tastes theyre looking for, with friskies grillers. Tender meaty pieces and crunchy bites. In delicious chicken, beef, turkey, and garden veggie flavors. Friskies grillers. Cowan its summertime for all practical purposes. And one of those purposes is of course, travel. This morning Martha Teichner takes us along on her travels to an island gem. Horses arrive in the 1500s. Now they far out number the 30something humans who live on cumberland. Its a sliver of an island not quite 20 miles long just off the georgia coast. A wild and magical place of spectacular beauty where nature feels large and people small. Which is why they love it here. This is a place, this Little Church was built by freed slaves, this is where john and carolyn got married. If you ever heard of Cumberland Island possibly its because this was where the late john f. Kennedy, junior, married carolyn bissette. It was extraordinary. There was no light. One candle up here. It was just the most magical moment. Gogo who hag been the eye lapped for seven generations arranged the wedding. By then id known him for 20 years he was very attached to cumberland. A place he knew he could have his privacy, he was very passionate about this history. But this story is about her love of that history. And how it shaped her life. Once native americans lived on the island then the spanish, the french and the british came and went. Their missions and forts gone now. Revolutionary war hero, general Nathanial Greene bought thousands of agers of land in 1783 his wife and daughters graves remain. The chimneys of few slave cabins are all that is left from the islands year ascot ton plantation before the civil war. Its next in carnation was rich mans vacation playground. The story is truly all about family. The family in question, carnagia. Some orchard is 22,000 square feet its monstrous. In 1880s, thomas, iron and steel mag nature andrews boar and partner bought up most of Cumberland Island. Mansions were built for his children including the orchard. He built even bigger house for himself, it was the scene of grand family gatherings. Here was the guilded age in the middle of a wilderness. In 1959 the mansion burned. By then the familys fortunes were in decline but cumberland was in their blood, especially thomas rather ex senntive granddaughter lucy. She passed her fierce passion for the island on to gogo ferguson, her granddaughter. This is grandma with an alligator, not sure its alive but fabulous picture. Growing up gogo, whose real name is janet, spent her summers with her grandmother. She always wore a bandanna and buck knife. Even for a dinner party. She had deer that had been abandoned here that she raised on a bottle. She gave us all this incredible sense of nature. Most people dont have. In 1978, divorced, in need of work, gogo took hanna her small daughter home to Cumberland Island where, like her grandmother she found beauty and purpose in nature. This is an alligator skull, this is from a hump back whale. Her house looks like a Natural History museum. These are all bones . Its bones, this is megladons sharks tooth. Id rather have these treasures then jewels. Except thats exactly what shes turned them in to. Pull your hair back. I think if somehow we can hinge this her love of everything cumberland became her living. She transforms her odd island signs in to jewelry and housewares. Her daughter, hanna, works with her now. Always these buckets outside of our house with bones and things. My imagination, i am madge inned her as a witch, a good witch on cumberland nonetheless. I am hike hiking through the woods or walking down the sand dunes i can spot the whiteness of a bone anywhere. Gogo ferguson is always looking down. Collecting something. As if she cant help herself but when she looks up she doesnt like what she sees. Ive seen so many of the historic structure go to demolition by neglect. Demolition by neglect. One of her examples, the pool house next to dungeoness as it looked then and now. Should should let it fall in. That part of the history is erased forever. By they she means the National Park service. In 1972 to prevent the island from being developed members of the carnagie family gave or sold most of their land and many billings to the National Park service. And Cumberland IslandNational Sea Shore was created. The problem has been the money to maintain it all. I think were doing an adequate job in some very lean times. Fred recently retired as superintendent of the Cumberland IslandNational Sea Shore he add mets the park service made a decision to maintain some buildings but let others go. Its always been