Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. In what was an instantly iconic moment today america was introduced to Caitlyn Jenner. Call me caitlyn with a portrait by annie lebowitz. Bruce jenner went to the Surgeons Office in Beverly Hills thinking the facial feminization surgery would take about five hours. Caitlyn left the office in Beverly Hills after the procedure had taken roughly ten hours n. A video on vanity fairs website Caitlyn Jenner described her thoughts the. I was running a way from a lot of things. Very, very proud of the accomplishment. I dont want to diminish the accomplishment. The last few days doing the shoot was about my life and who i am as a person. Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie every day. He always had a secret from morning until night. Caitlyn doesnt have any secrets. As soon as the vanity fair cover comes out, im free. Caitlyn jenners first tweet, im so happy after such a long struggle, to be living my true self. Cant wait for you to get to know her me. Caitlyn jenner has 1 million followers. She became the fastest twitter follower even faster than president obama. Today ushered in the next chapter of the transition of the olympic gold medal superstar and reality tv staple who has been known as bruce jenner. He first publicly admitted he was in the process in an interview with diane sawyer broadcast april 24. I look at it this way. Bruce always telling a lie. Hes lived the lie his whole life about who he is. And i cant do that any longer. Are you a woman . Yes, for all intents and purposes, i am a woman. Now with this first public photograph as Caitlyn Jenner has become the most famous transgender person to go through a transition in the public eye in history. Caitlyn general letter have her own reality show on e and she will be awarded the arthur ashe courage award at the espn espy awards. Congressman mike honda of california tweeted in february, quote, as a proud grandpa of a transgender grandchild i hope she can fear safe at School Without fear of being bullied. Its a great pleasure to have you. Thank you. First, your sense of the import of this as this cultural moment today. Well, i think its a moment, like you said, a culture moment but its a moment of teaching and learning, and i think that caitlyn had done a wonderful job of instructing people about this life, her life, and distinction. She was very hard on herself when she said that bruce jenner was a liar. Well, society had a lot to do with it and didnt allow that kind of exposure to happen. I hope that her story today and in the future will be able to mature our population and make us a little bit more open and eliminate closets for young people. I find her discussion of this real unburdening thats happening, the idea of living with the burden, profoundly moving. Youre someone of the same roughly aged cohort as jenner, and, obviously this is something i think theres a certain kind of learning curve for folks of that cohort. Im curious how youve gone through that yourself. I think there are a couple of changes occur almost immediately. A change of pronounce and even searches for a more appropriate pronoun. And i think that how we look at birthing and how children are assigned a gender is going to be important, also. I think people of my age group have a lot of learning to do, but its something that helps us become more open, more nurturing, more embracing, and itll save a lot of lives. What do you mean by that . I think suicide among youngsters who are in question about their own gender, the fact that theyre being bullied all the time, and the effort to protect them from bullying is minimal right now. But with this kind of discussion, i think that more and more youngsters, more and more people will be aware of what kind of hurt and how far that hurt drives into a person to a point of committing suicide. And i think we have youngsters who when they first declare themselves to parents are very powerful image and person of a childs life if theres a resistance from a youngster declaring herself in the case of melissa, the first plank of the door to the closet, to the extent that were open and nurturing and engaging and allowing them to express themselves, that door will not exist. Do you have conversations about this issue with your colleagues . There are tremendous legal impediments, not just prejudice, there are legal impediments to folks out there. Tell me the level of kind of familiarity, literacy, openmindedness among your colleagues. I think thats an ongoing process. Were going through the acceptance of the letters lbgtq. Although weve passed laws and the Supreme Court has made judgments, we still have a way to go and open dialogue and discussion is healthy. I have a colleague from florida and we have our occasional chats. I think for myself this past weekend i spent time with a gentleman by the jaime of joel who is the executive director of gender Spectrum Group in emeryville, california, who works very closely with the endocrinologist at the university of californiasan francisco. Steven rosenthal. Theyre collaborating and looking at the science and the sociology of transgender. And i think from their work we can come up with some word smithing on how to adjust our policies in an appropriate way. Congressman mike honda, a pleasure. Thank you for joining me tonight. Thank you. There are 700,000 transgender men and women in the u. S. Most of them not famous and many are often the target of open hostility but there are positive little developments. Occupational safety and health administration, osha, issued a four page guide to restroom access to ensure transgender employees are able to work in a manner consistent with how they live the rest of their daily lives and said transgender employees should have access to the restroom that correspondents to their gender identity and not be forced to use a third or gender neutral bathroom. Both houses of the state Legislature Passed a bill to changing gender on birth certificates according to a press release. According to the Movement Advancement project most states score poorly when ranked on lbgt policies that include marriage, adoption, safe schools, health and safety, and ability for transgender people to change the gender on identity documents. Joining me now a transgender rights advocate parker molloy. There are so many tangible concrete battles fought for equality in this space. I want to talk about your assessment of the import of this moment, this cultural moment, how it will impact those battles happening on the ground. Sure. Thanks for having me, chris. I believe that it all kind of ties together. You see these legal developments, the osha pamphlet essentially, along with the connecticuts new law. These are great things. This is a positive forward. You combine that with Caitlyn Jenner popping up on the cover of vanity fair and theres just so much visibility right now. I believe it ties in together. As you mentioned things most people arent like Caitlyn Jenner. Most people have to go to a day job and dont have the luxury of being able to hide away like that. So oshas recommendation is really important in the sense its trying to help the majority of trans people. The issue is the fact this is just a recommendation. It doesnt have any real teeth to it. Theres nothing that can force people to follow it. And while they do note that the courts have ruled in favor of transpeople, these are expensive battles to take to Supreme Court and so that makes it prohibitive in another sense. The point you made there strikes me as an essential and important one about the kind of daytoday friction with a world that isnt necessarily in the most enlightened space in conceiving of this. And sometimes i think probably out of ignorance more than malice but a combination of both am what are policies you think that could genuinely get us towards a better world in that respect . Sure. I think the first thing that needs to happen there, we need to see work place protections and not to just rely on those protections being the department of justice ruling or osha ruling something. We need to have that in legislation which is why i think its really important we get a trans inclusive nondiscrimination act passed through congress without, you know, any excessive loopholes that allow people out of that because we just need to make it clear that its not okay to deny someone work and its not okay to fire them just for being trans or for coming out as trans. As long as thats the case, it legitimizes the argument trans people arent okay. Theres something wrong with them. Theyre not welcome to be around children. Recently there was a case at a barnes noble where a trans employee who was suing barnes noble claims that she was fired after coming out as trans, and part of the reason given was think about the children. This is a family are store. Now nothing hurts more than hearing people say that you cant be around children or you shouldnt be around children simply are for existing. And that comes from this culture thats built in that really envelops all of us. 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Those keeping score at home Michael Steele is leading in our all in fantasy draft. A long way to go. A lot of candidates on the board. Check out our Facebook Page where we have our draft updates. Martin omalley joins a democratic president ial field who has Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the latter of whom has been drawing massive crowds, larger than many expected including an estimated 4,000 people at a minneapolis town hall yesterday. With Lindsey Graham entry into the race today, now a full 5 of the senate is running for president. The battles are playing out on the senate floor where cameras caught graham hilariously rolling his eyes at rhetoric from rand paul. Well bring you the back story on what prompted that next. Clinically proven neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair with the fastest retinol formula available, it works on fine lines and even deep wrinkles. Youll see younger looking skin in just one week. Stop hoping for results, and start seeing them. Rapid wrinkle repair. 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Despite warnings from the white house mcconnell and many others have dire consequences, the provisions expired last night at midnight without Congress Passing anything this despite the fact mcconnell had finally relented and was willing to pass the house bill during a special session yesterday. Why couldnt he get it done . Rand paul, the man mcconnell endorsed for president , used the special session to lecture his colleagues about what he sees as their willingness to give away americans freedoms. Things got pretty nasty. People here in town think im making a huge mistake. Some of them, i think, secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me. Paul admit that had might have been hyperbolic. He energized his supporters and infuriated colleagues with mccain, Dianne Feinstein suggesting paul was putting his political ambitions ahead of security. A closed door meeting paul himself skipped in which senator mark kirk of illinois dubbed the we dont stand with rand meeting. Tomorrow when paul runs out of tools to block it, they are expected to move forward, reinstate the provisions but blocking bolt collection of phone records by the government. The big question after all of this political posturing in the most dramatic debate over american surveillance since september 11 is whether after all of this anything will have truly changed. Joining me one of the few representatives to vote against that bill, representative ted lieu. Im confused. At 2 15 we saw the government can say give us three months of phone records, every metadata, every phone record call, not the content, but who is calling whom, we want to store it. What is different the way the freedom act has changed that . I dont understand. The freedom act has private sector Telephone Companies hold on to the record and thats one reason i voted no against the freedom act. I dont believe private Sector Companies should be an arm of Law Enforcement. Right. This is what i dont understand. Dont they by definition have these records . Like verizon presumably can access this if they need to. I dont understand what affirmatively theyre being asked to do here. Here is the whole rub with all of this. Even though the patriot act has expired, the nsa can still do everything it virtually wants to do if they just get a warrant. The whole issue can they spy on americans without warrants . And i support what rand paul did. I might add, by the way, since the patriot act provision expired today might be a good day to call your mother. It will be the first time in many years the federal government is not seizing your phone records. First of all, on this warrant question, my understanding, again, get to the details, the reason that the document that leaked, right, the snowden document that leaked, was that not a warrant or was that just an order from the federal government for the bulk collection . You have these fisa courts, a rubber stamped court, that has done everything the nsa asked and they gave a generalized warrant that said you, nsa, can seize every phone record of every american. And thats just flat out unconstitutional. Federal courts have ruled that. And the notion that you are suspicious just because you use a phone is a noteworthy constitution and thats why congress is so upset about what the nsa did. So lets say this passes, i am some part of the government, the nsa and i want those records now, could i still go get the whole group of them from verizon which is storing them or do i have to say i want the phone records for this individual person . You would have to have a select search query to these phone companies. I see. I think its still a little too broad the way its written. The usa freedom act is better than the existing patriot act. I voted no because i dont think the limits go far enough. It comes down to the Fourth Amendment that is really clear. Basically unless the government gets a warrant and for years our government has not been doing that. The history here is in the 18th century, the colonists hated king george ii had suspended the necessity of getting specific warrants. There were general warrants in the colonies that allowed the british to just take everything in a house and it specifically general warrants, that was one of the arguments the colonists made for the tyranny of king george. If you want to have this massive surveillance of americans, you have to change the constitution. If youre not going to be able to do that, the nsa cannot be executing the Bulk Collection Program. We have seen how easily the surveillance state can kind of tweak itself to do what it needs to do or feels it needs to do no matter what the laws are on the ground. Do you have any confidence we will actually see genuine constraints imposed on what the nsa is doing . I think we should start from the bottom up and scrap the entire patrio