issues in texas for the past five years. and joining us, democratic texas state representative jasmine crockett. representative, crockett, great to see you. rachel, thanks for being with us. your daughter is an activist, right? she's exactly what we want out of a democratic society. she from the age of 6 has been testifying. i have spoken to her before. but this is sort of -- being transgender is sort of part of this. part of it is that republicans in texas have made everything a battle to the death. everything is black and white and binary if you will, not to use that expression. it's oversimplified into if you're not on our side, we need to shut you down. >> yes, exactly. >> tell me a bit about how this is different from what it used to be because you've seen this. you've watched this now for five years. >> right. so my family's been doing this very actively since before the bathroom bill battle in 2017,