eight years. when you take this much vacation why? he is too old. >> all eyes on desantis so coming off the campaign trail and putting all of his focus and energy in florida. so, joe concha, thank you so much for your time this morning, we appreciate it. griff, it's always good it see you my friend. >> i will see you tomorrow. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> brian: all right. we begin with a fox weather alert. three deaths being linked to idalia. florida highway patrol says two deadly crashes before the hurricane made landfall and a man in georgia killed by a falling tree while attempting to clear a blocked road. >> steve: look at all of that water. right now the still powerful storm is slamming the carolinas as a tropical storm. but, it hit florida's big bend as a category 3. cat 3 hurricane bringing life-threatening storm surge, generational storm surge.

flash flooding and dangerous winds as well. and take a look at this brief tornado which flipped a car off the ground in south carolina. just right over. right there in front of that vehicle. >> rachel: amazing. meanwhile before and after satellite images show the extent of the flooding in florida over 310,000 people are without power across florida, georgia and the carolinas this morning. fox weather's brandy campbell is live with the impacts of idol i can't. brandy, good morning. >> good morning, guys. i'm joining you here from perry, florida where much of this town is in complete darkness. we have scenes kind of like what you are seeing behind me across this town. we got here around 4:00 a.m. we couldn't see much, but you could see the debris on the sides of the roads. the roads themselves clean, but the structures around, you can see this dollar store right here, the very front of it just toppled over. you can't get inside of this

building, inside the parking lot there is debris as well from trees and such. so this is just the disarray the day after this storm passed that people are going to have to deal with and clean. i want to show you guys some additional video that was taken yesterday, just driving throughout this town to get a better picture of what it is like. this town was severely impacted because the storm actually passed directly over this town. actually, i want to show you what it was like during those moments as idalia actually crossed over. you can see it looks like they were in the middle of a tornado, but it was category 3 idalia. and i also want to point out the wind speeds were the highest in this area. they had the highest wind gust of 85 miles per hour recorded here throughout the entire duration of idalia. there was actually, i should say the national weather service they issued an extreme wind warning, and they told people to treat it as though there was a tornado and to take shelter

immediately. so, as the sun comes up, guys, we are going to be going around this town to see how extensive the damage is because of this storm. and hopefully talk to some of the folks, the residents who had to deal with this as well. outside of it, i mentioned, power outages are a big issue as well. a lot of people waking up in the dark. this county, 99% in the dark. florida, 151,000 customers in the dark. and the storm is continuing throughout the u.s. georgia 110,000 and in the carolinas, combined, about 50,000 people waking up in the dark, guys. >> steve: that's right. brandy, let me ask you this, since the power is out, how many people are not there? how many houses are sitting elm did i right now? because i know yesterday during one of his many press conferences governor desantis reminded anybody that might be a bad actor that people in florida have a right to defend their property. he said "if you loot, we shoot."

have there been any reports of any looting or shooting? >> i haven't heard of them in this area. i do know he was speaking to a neighborhood in close to the shore inaccessible. as far as this town, very small town. i believe with the population is around 7,000, if that. as far as how many people have stayed behind, not sure, but i will say hopefully not too 78 because it is pitch black out here, guys. it's hard to see anything despite where we are. we are near a walmart. they have power, but, outside of this, you can't see anything. >> yeah. brandy, are people there just kind of breathing a sigh of relief? it could have been a lot worse. >> yeah, exactly. obviously, this town of perry, they were hit hard. but, in some places like tallahassee where i was yesterday, they expected much worse but, instead, i would say they were spared quite a bit.

a lot of trophies down in this region. that was expected. power outages. but, overall, we would say they were spared with the storm taking more of an eastern turn as it made lawful. >> brian: all right. thanks, brandy. >> steve: great job. >> brian: download the fox weather app. and get all the information got a weather channel now. it doesn't take long. you don't need a short-term memory loss to understand what's happened over the last few weeks. we know that maui got slammed. the whole island was virtually on fire. we covered all of that. what was most astounding about it the president was mia. when he did talk he actually said "no comment." and then he looked in the camera and said, "no comment." they tried to walk it back and say he didn't hear the question which is impossible. also if he didn't hear the question three days to come up with the answer as opposed to say getting into the suv they just asked you about a devastating hurricane in hawaii and you said nothing. now this time we have him

engaged. is he talking to desantis multiple times. referencing hawaii. is he trying to do a make good, rachel. >> rachel: that's right. peter doocy actually pressed karine jean-pierre the white house press secretary on the administration's response to maui versus the way, as you said, brian, they are stepping it up at this time after all the criticism, listen. >> peter: it seems like the hurricane response so far is robust. did you guys realize that the initial hawaii wildfire response was not that good? or is it just easier for people to get help from the white house in the president is not on vacation? >> so, the pressroom mills of your question and the way you posed your question i disagree, just for the record. so, if you talk to, if you were to do your reporting and speak to the governor of hawaii, the senators of hawaii, the folks on the ground, they would say that the president reacted in record time when it came to dealing with the wildfires.

so, your question is wrong. it's flawed in many, many ways. and i would advise you to go speak to the governor and the local and state officials in -- in hawaii. >> rachel: she is actually telling the truth for for the first time. the democrat officials from the island were spewing the white house talking points about how that was going. if he had actually spoken to people and you mentioned brian he said "no comment." actually the very worst thing he said when he got to the island and he talked about. >> brian: ugh. >> rachel: compared the deaths of these people many of them children. >> steve: 110 people died. >> rachel: absolutely to his fear from a kitchen fire possibly hurting his sports car. it was disgusting. >> steve: it was. and fema has had a lagging response all along. and, rachel, to your point, the governor of hawaii is democrat. the senators are democrats. so, sure, they are going to say hey, heck of a good job. but his response has been tone deaf in so many ways and

eventually he did go, stayed for a minute. and then hacked a lot of people off. and to peter's point. >> brian: fell asleep, too. >> steve: it was a great question because when you look at what is going on down in florida ron desantis, you know, mobilized the people. and people, that's the thing about a hurricane, you see it days ahead of time. and people got out of the way for the most part as you look at taya lot of the flooding we have got screen left as opposed to what went on in maui with the wildfires. he was asked that apparently. sure i welcome any investigation. it's interesting though, he was also asked about ron desantis and the response by the state down there, and he said, you know, i was down in florida for the last major storm. i spent time with governor desantis. we walked from community to

community, he was able to suggest, mr. biden was, that it wasn't about politics. and he said it's all about taking carol of the people of the state and joe biden said that he trusts ron desantis when it comes to making sure that the people of florida can get what they need. >> brian: it's amazing how competence bales out a president. remember, jeb bush knew what he was doing in florida. and the president bush at the time was getting ready for his first debate. went down there, moved a few boxes around and say they got it straight they just got slammed. katrina would hit a short time later and total incompetence in louisiana where a federal government, which was not perfect, was trying to get help. they didn't want help from the republican president. governor desantis knows what he is doing in the clutch. he picked up the phone, worked the pandemic. was on there talking to jared at 6:30 in the morning every day. got the marching orders. understood the stats and came up with his own conclusions and policy. when he pulled off the stump to do, this is he is total natural.

if you watch his press conferences there is no wasted words or sentiment. very direct. everybody knows what they are doing. he has been on national television the last two days doing his job which is better than any campaign ad. it's better than any appearance or rally. >> rachel: absolutely, from a purely political perspective. it was the right thing to do morally but it was also politically as you said. i want to mention with joe biden, he has taken this opportunity to basically double down on this is all because of climate and, you know, pushing this whole climate change, climate, you know, emergency agenda. and this has been his talking point on this although he has given credit rightfully so to the governor for doing things right and trying to help. that's wonderful. but make no mistake. they are not going to let this go to waste. this is going to be another reason for then to push this very antihuman agenda that they are -- >> steve: ron desantis could

face joe biden next year. so just for joe biden. >> rachel: doesn't look very likely at this point. >> steve: you never know. it is still early. for him to say i trust ron desantis, that is extraordinary. the last point about the maui situation, versus florida. florida, we saw the storm coming for days. and that is the thing about a hurricane, it's going to hit somewhere. and so that's why they had that cone of uncertainty. so people were prepared in florida. but people in maui, the local officials for the most part, at every step along the way did the wrong thing. you know, they didn't ring the bell. they didn't run the siren. it was caused by an electric company reportedly that had been warned, you know, this could spark a fire. just everything in maui went wrong. and that's why the federal response has been so flat-footed. and that is why peter doocy actually asked a great question yesterday. they just didn't like it.

>> brian: the federal government. >> steve: they didn't like what actually happened. >> brian: the federal government was slow and the president was relick dz four or five days stayed on vacation. falls asleep makes a ridiculous speech. press secretary crites senators and governors i'm up to date as opposed to i went and talked to people on the ground they are happy with the response. will cain and others have talked to people on the ground. i think he has a counter narrative. >> rachel: i think it's emblematic of the entire democrat strategy which is bidenomics. we're going to ask the millionaires and billionaires how they are doing. they are doing great. everything is cool. going to maui. talking to the governor everything is cool? okay, great. they don't actually give a you know what about real people and that just is a perfect example of that. >> steve: just remember, the reason he went to maui was because he was on the west coast for his vacation and he left that $50 million vacation home. traveled from lake tahoe, went out to maui, came back, didn't

overnight but got the sites and people left and said hey, what about a kitchen fire? >> brian: now is he back on vacation for four day labor day. >> rachel: it is rough. it's rough being as old and feeble as he is. he does need a lot of rest. i'm just saying. >> brian: right. >> steve: we are going to talk about that later. >> rachel: some days i feel like that. >> steve: point out rachel is in the center square. we had a national emergency at the top couldn't say hello good to see you. >> rachel: nice to be here as always. >> brian: have to stay the whole three hours. the call from staten island republicans to succeed from the big apple over the migrant crisis. i say one thing, don't leave long island out. we will come with you. >> rachel: i was just going to ask you that. long and staten are out. >> steve: 12-year-old boy kicked out of class don't tread on me patch on his backpack. >> due to its origins with the

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malliotakis is calling for staten island to break away from the big apple. that call coming after a judge's ruling allowing bus loads of migrants to take shelter in a former catholic school. coins more than two centuries old discovered west point buried in the year 1828. the lead box was cracked open earlier this week at the military academy. the first archaeologist could only find dust and mud but after a little digging and just a little longer they found six silver american coins some dating all the way to 1795. officials believe the capsule and contents were placed at a campus monument by cadets. pretty cool there. >> brian: general they named a bridge after him here. is he the polish general that went up to west point. i would keep digging there has got to be more. why have a time capsule with three coins. >> ashley: maybe they will keep digging. i would. >> steve: times were tough they could only afford the three

coins probably not expensive ones. >> rachel: very expensive now. >> steve: really expensive. >> rachel: worth a lot. >> steve: we have a little history for you. first up let's talk about a kid whose name is jayden and 12 years old and goes to the vanguard school in colorado springs. he went to school with that backpack and on the backpack he had among other patches the gadsden flag. the don't tread on me flag. he was called in because school official said that flag patch was disruptive to the classroom and then the school district told said to the school patch ♪ permitted. the kid can only come back if he took all the patches off. there you can see the gadsden flag is highlighted there. he went back and that hacked them off so they called the parents and said you got to sit down with us. here's the video that went viral

when the school defined wrongly what that flag is all about the reason evidence reach they don't want the flag -- the reason we don't want the flag is due to its origins with slavery and slave trade. that is what was that's the reasoning behind. the gadsden flag, the don't tread on me. >> okay. >> which is the gadsden flag. >> it has nothing to do with slavery. that's the revolutionary war patch. >> steve: she is right. brian this dates back to 1775. christopher gadsden came up with it. he was a south carolina delegate. and this south carolina delegate said hey, here is this great flag when we go battle unfurl it and they did on 1775. this kid was 100 percent right and able to keep that pin on. the teacher, it's not a we.

it's really her that has a problem with it because people are just getting ready to exercise anger all the time. >> steve: the school board also doubled down on what the teacher had said. you cannot -- the school board said you can't come back. >> rachel: it's interesting. this is actually a charter school which claims to be a classical education. so they are had to do a big, you know, turn around on their points the parents are upset the mom so calm. i'm impressed. i wouldn't go and be that nice about it. but kind of very politely educated the teacher who is not very educated doesn't understand american history and try associate with racism or something like that. so that's one thing. two, the boy. he is so polite. he is so well-mannered there was a subsequent video where he comes back and had just done some podcasts and sort of gave his point of view and said, you know, i have come back.

a lot of kids are now -- he came back to school and other kids are putting don't tread on me patches all over their lockers and their backpacks. and he said this the sad part. i made some new friends. kids that i didn't know before that are now supportive of me but the teachers were so mean to me. some of the teachers. how disgusting is that? that was really bothersome. this is a reminder that you are your child's first and most important teacher. that mother taught that son about what don't tread on me. the rattlesnake was the symbol of america because the if you tp ton. >> rachel: it's going to bite you back. standing up. that's what that boy is doing. he is such a patriot. i think that brian kilmeade is going to adopt him. >> brian: i might. i might have to do it. i do like his backpack. didn't he have a whole bunch of pins. >> rachel: also running for vice president. i think is he going to win. you see the patch on the back

there. >> steve: so after the school board -- first the teacher said nope, get out. you got to go home. after the school board said nope, he can't come back with it, after the governor said hey, what are you talking about? the flag is important to american history. it's patriotic. and then the school board changed their tune, did the 180. they sent this letter out of to the parents. they said the vaughn guard school recognizes the historical significance of the gadsden flag and place in incident. this incident is an occasion for us to affirm our deep commitment to a classical education in support of these american principles. at this time the vanguard school board and the district have informed the student's family he may attend school with the gadsden patch on backpack. time for remedial lesson on american history for all of the people involved in this except the family waters they got it

right. >> rachel: we need give these tests to the teachers. >> steve: i thought they did before they got their teaching certificate. >> rachel: no, because they all get licensed through these marxist teaching schools we have inside of all these universities. that's also why you have teachers that turn out like that that have no idea about american history. they don't care about it. they get hired by a classical academy, a charter school where parents are supposedly pulling their kids out of public school to get a better education this is what they get. always be alert. >> brian: if you see a flag you don't understand what the pin means. before you make a statement get that off or kick them out. look it up. let me find out what that flag means. yeah, that's no problem. take a seat. it's also going to be very tense on the set. piers morgan come in. is he pro-british. we are anti-british. and there is going to be a lot of tension when we bring this story up. so you do it, all right? he has a bit of a temper. >> rachel: i have no problem calling out the red coats. >> brian: we are antired coat. we like pierce.

>> steve: don't tread on him. >> rachel: i won't tread on him. >> steve: he will bite. the guy bites. >> rachel: piepiepiers and i haa bond on how much we dislike meghan markle. >> brian: landmark victory for a carolina mom argued child changed genders at school without her consent. she joins us on a "fox & friends" exclusive. >> rachel: devastating video as a tiki bar gets wiped out from the historic idalia storm surge. the mission to rebuild it is next. ♪ and it's designed to help you feel cool. so, no more sweating all night... ...no kicking off the covers... ...or blasting the air conditioning. because only the tempur-pedic breeze is made with our one-of-a-kind cooling technology - that pulls heat away from your body. so, the mattress feels up to 10° cooler all night long. don't miss our biggest sale of the year,

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that's where the storm made landfall. grady, good morning. >> good morning, rachel. and florida governor ron desantis as well as the administrator of fema will tour the damage today and when they do, they will see scenes like this all over the big bend region of florida. this area, keaton beach, where the storm made landfall was really concerned about storm surge yesterday. when the storm actually moved through 24 hours ago, the biggest issue in this neighborhood was wind damage. you can see this roof came off of this house and fell into what looks like the neighbor's pool. there are other houses that have similar damage in the area as well. where flooding was a problem was in stein hatchy, florida. so he you that video high water vehicles from the terrell county sheriff's office driving around. we also saw florida fish and wildlife.

state law enforcement officials and coast guard officials making their rounds throughout the look for anyone that might need to be rescued. did not find anyone that we're aware of that was in need of help. right now terrell county where we are, 99% of people here do not have power as they begin to recover they will not have air conditioning to do it. also want to get to this tweet from casey desantis, governor desantis' wife she said a 100-year-old oak tree fell on the governor's mansion there while she and the three kids were home. fortunately, everyone was okay. and finally, the big concern now is possible. governor desantis has this warning for anybody thinking about it. >> ild remind potential looters you never know what you are walking into. i have seen signs in different people's yards in the past after

these disasters and i would say it's probably here you loot, we shoot. you never know what's behind that door if you go break into somebody's house. rachel, we have not seen looters ourselves in this neighborhood. when we first got here yesterday afternoon a sheriff's deputy actually stopped us and asked us to see our ids to let us into the neighborhood. people coming in here have to prove that they live here in order to pass because they say looting has become a problem already. rachel? >> rachel: wow, grady, thank you so much. great report. all right. well, let's check in now with our senior meteorologist janice dean for our fox weather forecast. janice? >> janice: almost done with this storm system. we definitely got heavy rainfall. some cases close to 10 inches. this is florida's rainfall totals, but not only that, but into georgia and south carolina yesterday close to 10 inches in states borough, georgia. we had some flash flood emergencies yesterday. just want to show you rapid

intensification before u.s. landfall in terms of record-keeping since 1950. idalia is top 4 because we went from a cat 1 to a category 4 in just a matter of hours. also i want to point out by letter retired tropical names the i name storm. retired they do that because of the death toll or from extreme damage. so we will probably see idalia retired. tropical storm idalia now the area of low pressure just off the coast of the carolinas here. we have tropical storm warnings in effect. the storm will be exiting offshore in the next few hours and bermuda could see the remnants but it will be a weakening system and it's not going to curve back which is great news. we also are watching the atlantic. it is peak season right now. this is what we're dealing with as we go into august and september. so we still have a ways to go, especially into the weeks of september. so we will continue to keep you up to date. otherwise, fairly quiet as we go

into the long weekend. over to you. >> brian: all right. thanks so much. i appreciate it. meanwhile, janice, i look forward to talking to you in the green room. strongest hurricane in more than a century hit florida's big bend yesterday. locals are now looking back at long recovery in some cases. our next guest watched his bar flood on livestream as the nearly 7-foot storm surge hit cedar key. owner of low key hide away and tiki bar scott larson joins us now. scott, when did you set up that camera and you realized you wanted to get a vision of what was or wasn't going to happen to your bar? >> say that again? >> brian: what made you set up the camera? >> well, you know, before a hurricane you want to start having some drinks with your employees. and we walked down and ran into one of your guys setting up the cameras. and, you know, having a little conversation. i got a good idea, we should put one of those in a tiki bar so that's what happened. i'm glad we did. it was really hard to watch.

but, you know, it was nice to be able to watch it all unfold. it is a disaster here. >> brian: you rebuilt it and reirefurbished it took it over. what are your thoughts now that you see the water damage. >> we spent the last year and a half to remodel it to make it beautiful again. i think god likes to watch me work. [laughter] [broken audio] >> brian: it will come back. is he just moving around. >> it's just a disaster here. >> brian: scott. you might not want to move the camera around we are losing the audio a bit. you believe we you are going to get this thing opened in a couple of weeks, right? >> yeah. that's the goal. a few weeks or sooner. it will -- it's not going to look the same but the drinks will still be good. >> brian: how about your insurance? do you have it? >> no. [broken audio] >> brian: you don't have insurance. >> no. we have insurance.

it doesn't cover the bar, unfortunately and anything outside, you know, insurance clauses. the worst part is that the hotel here and the house four feet under water. did you go inside my house and it looks like the couches is where the refrigerator was and the refrigerator is where the couch was. that's probably the worst of it. the bar will clean up. it's a tiki bar it's supposed to be fun and look almost like it does but not quite. we will get it up and going. homeless for a while but we'll get through it. of. >> brian: wow. you have a great attitude. scott larson, the low key hide away and tiki bar up in a couple weeks. open up, show up, and get drunk. good job, scott. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> brian: retired navy officer gets 100 stitches after walking his dog in his neighborhood. do you believe this? the latest on the search for the attacker. biden mad being treated like a toddler by his staffers. that's what the new book claims.

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energy to cast a robust public presence on the ability to easily conjure a name. in private he would occasionally admit that he felt tired. he also felt, apparently, that the staff was treating him like a toddler. former clinton adviser mark penn joins us now. >> good morning. >> steve: the "i'm tired" business nits with the national opinion polls a gigantic of americans feel like he is just too old for the job. >> well, that is what a lot of polls are showing. and i think it's going to be incumbent on biden in this campaign to shake that off. look it, being tired, president

clinton barely slept. he was tired most of the time, particularly during impeachment. so i don't know that was much of a shocking revelation to me. >> steve: yeah. it's -- plus, we know that he is stage managed. we constantly hear him say, you know, as he wanders over to reporters they don't want me to talk to you guys so i have got do go get on the chopper and stuff like that. meanwhile, go ahead, mark. >> yeah, no. you know, i thought he was right to be ticked off. you know, president clinton would make mistakes, and we gold president clinton and say you know, we think maybe we should correct this. we would never just do it without consulting the president. so, i was with him on that one. he was right to be ticked off. and that's stepping over the line when it comes to staff. >> steve: yeah. there is an interesting "wall street journal" article that came out in the last week or so that said that the race for 2028

is already heating up and there are a bunch of democratic governors who are kind of queuing up behind kamala harris. obviously they don't want to crcede the stage to her if president biden would make it another four years. she would be the presumptive nominee. a whole bunch of people like gavin newsom, governor of maryland, the governor of pennsylvania, the governor of michigan are all waiting in the wings. >> well, i think they definitely are. look, they are waiting in the wings now. look, six months ago i didn't think the democrats would consolidate around biden, but they did. i mean, he is scoring much higher points in the democratic primary than trump is in the republican primary. and i think there are a lot of potential new candidates that if things go as the democrats would like, biden re-election, yeah, there will be an open primary. remember, in the end, the vice presidents have almost always gotten the nomination from

mondale on from the democratic side because you have got all the institutional advantages. you are right. i think there will be a big primary in 2028 just the way it is. >> steve: yesterday, the president of the united states was talking about a governor, but the governor was a republican and a governor was won desantis and said he is doing a good job down there and he trusts him. watch this, mark. >> i know this sounds strange, especially how -- the nature of politics today but you know, i was down there when the last major storm. i spent a lot of time with him walking from village -- from community to community, making sure he had what he needed to get it done. i think he trusts my judgment and my desire to help, and i trust him to be able to suggest -- this is not about politics. this is about taking care of the people of the state. >> steve: that's something we don't hear very often anymore. you know, there's a possibility it could be ron desantis vs. joe biden in 2024. and here's joe biden saying

yeah, when it comes to this kind of stuff, i trust him. >> well, look, i'm glad to see an ounce of bipartisanship and reaching over. i would like to see more republicans and democrats praising each other. that's what americans do during a crisis like this. i think desantis has done a good job. he has been very strictly apolitical in what he has been doing. i think he showed kind of why he gets reelected in florida by the way he handled the hurricane so far. i think this is going to help him -- a lot in this presidential primary because he is showing his stuff. >> steve: there you go. all right. mark penn. sir, thank you very much for joining us lye. >> thank you. >> steve: all right. 11 minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, power to the parents. the landmark victory for a california mother who argued her daughter changed genders at school without her consent. she is going to join us next

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understanding and appreciation and respect for the process really emanated from him. ♪ ♪ >> rachel: a landmark victory for parental rights has just been settled. and it's coming out of california, freckle, california. in 2021, jessica conan, a california mom, sued the school district when she learned that her daughter was being socially transitioned at school she alleged they questioned her daughter's sexuality and allowed her to use different pronounce and bathrooms. konen is receiving $100,000 with her settlement from the district. joining us is jessica, her daughter alicia and mark trammel, the executive director of the center for american liberti' in a "fox & friends" exclusive. i will start with you, jessica. sprecialtion.

sprecialgs. why did you decide to go public with this story? >> i decided to actually go public with the story because i knew i needed to fight for her. i needed to be able to provide that parental, you know, that parental guidance that she needed i decided to go forward with the story because i wanted to protect her and i wanted to be there for her. and, also, thank you for having us. >> rachel: i will tell you you are protecting other children by coming public. it's really remarkable. alicia, i'm just so curious, who did you -- you were upset at school you told somebody you are upset they told you might not be who you truly are inside. there is somebody else you could be. they started to question your sexuality. did you go a teacher or a counselor? >> it was a counselor that i went to that counselor started

working with the school to socially transition me. >> rachel: i know you have learned so much through this experience. i'm sure it's been traumatic and i want to ask you about the emotional toll it's taken. in addition to that, could you talk to us about your best advice? i look at these guidance counselor's offices and i think they are treacherous. right? if you could go back in time would you say you can't talk to my child without talking to me first with anything at the counselor's office? >> actually, yes, i would. i feel that parents should be involved throughout their complete children -- you know their elementary, their middle school, whatever -- anything that the child goes through, i think a parent should be involved. i absolutely would have put a note. it's up to me, you know, to be able to guide her in that direction. that's what my parental right is. i would, you know, suggest as my advice to stop doing this.

stop putting secrecy into parents in general. it creates division within families. it kind of stops the bond you make with your children. absolutely i would send a note. i would not like them to partake in that if anything they can notify me so we can all work together mark, this case is land mark. we said that in the intro. i believe it is. what do you think are the repercussions now. i don't think $100,000 is enough for the trauma this family has gone through, frankly. but what do you think this amount of money is going to do in terms of the trajectory of how this is handled in other schools? schools are going to wake up when they realize there is a financial liability at stake here. parental secrecy policies you might expect in a place like california. you don't expect it in middle

america. but i can tell you our offices have had calls from, i think probably almost all 50 states, very similar stories as jessica's and alicia's and i think i'm really excited that this outcome, not only -- i'm excited for this outcome not just for my clients but for what it's going to do nationwide. i think it's going to have a deterring effect. i think that schools that are doing this behind parents' backs are going to think twice because the financial liability is so great. >> rachel: yeah. money talks. sadly, that's what it took. alicia, you were told you were a boy or might be a boy. they socially transitioned you and with time you said this is eventually who i am? can you tell us about that? i'm a woman, i'm a girl. >> well, after i -- after covid hit, i ended up being out of the control of the school, and i

really figured out that who the school said i was, i was not. and that i was a girl and i was alicia. and it was just -- it was eye opening to me. because i had been -- i had an identity for so long that was false. so it really took me a while to figure out that i was alicia but, after i figured it out, things only went up. >> rachel: yeah. you are beautiful, alicia, thank you. >> thank you. >> rachel: i'm going to end with jessica. so, alicia, i think it's important to note was only 11 years old when this happened. she was so impressionable. it wasn't until she left the grasp of the school during covid and was home under your protection that she kind of came to herself. i would like to get just a little idea of what parents could do if they find themselves in this situation, what your advice to them are