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Glaad no longer stands for -- the glaad organization will stand up for transgender equity. joining me now at the table are two guests from the transgender community, mel wie more is a city council candidate from manhattan's upper west side and janet mock is a writer and activist and a big favorite among the nerdland staff who have been fan girling her for about two days. let's start by just asking, when glaad -- part of the -- to stand in for glaad here. when glaad says we're taking on transgender issues, what do they see that as? what are the primary questions facing communities? >> let's be ...

Alliship, mel, i was thinking about this as a matter of politics when we were doing the voting right and the question of voter suppression in the context of the election. we're talking about race, the trajectory of the civil right movement. trans women don't have identity markers, i.d. cards that match what their self-presentation is. if you have to presentation your drivers license to vote, you might in fact be disenfranchised from being able to vote because that face doesn't match what i'm looking at here. >> absolutely. sometimes it takes year to make that transition in documentation and ch...