>> we are proud to welcome breanna sinclaire. >> reporter: this brave beginning -- >> oh, say can you see. >> reporter: -- was breanna's moment to learn the answers to the questions. >> when i sing, i want us all to stand united. all judgment aside. just be who you are. be authentic. >> reporter: breanna sinclaire says, her voice makes her a vessel. she will never know who is in the crowd hearing it. who in the crowd maybe sees her for her for the first time while listening. but she knows people can change and says there is hope. >> there is hope for the trans and gender nonconforming community, i think. we are just at a very difficult time. but i do believe there is light at the end of the tunnel. i do believe there is only one way, and that is up. we are going to survive this. we are going to get through this. >> reporter: getting through until the message in the anthem applies to all. >> in the land of the free. >> ladies and gentlemen, breanna sinclaire. >> we are posting all of our pride destroys on a special section of kpix.com. we will be streaming even more all month long gone

see how breanna sinclair is leaning on those who came befor as she seeks equality through her art. that story and more with liz cook and ryan yamamoto coming up at 5:00. >>> plus, a bay area man getting the gift of a lifetime when he found out he was adopted. our john ramos picks u this beautiful story. >> reporter: lauren mcdonald spent father's day's honoring his adoptive father, donald. bu he always wondered where he cam from. >> i spent my entire life from the age of five thinking about my parents and particularly my birth father. i don't know why. but i think i have this innate sense that i was more like my father than i was my mother. >> reporter: eventually learned through government records the maiden name of his birth mother but his father was a complete mystery, just that he was from sweden, so he took a dna test and got no results until he sen his dna profile to a genealogy service popular in europe. >> i wake up on saturday mornin and i see that i have a 10% dna match with a gentleman named haakon. the first thing he sai to me as i have been waiting fo this call for 40

. >> breanna sinclair÷ says her voice makes her -- maybe who in the crowd caesar for the first time whilelistening. she knows people can change but says there is hope >> there is hope for the trans and gender nonconforming community. we are at a very difficult time but i do believe there is light at the end of the tunnel and there is only one way and that is up. >> if we are going to survive this, we are going to get through this, getting through until the message in the anthem applies to all. >> be sure to join us this sunday for live coverage of the pride parade on our sister station kb cw and streaming on cbs news bay area . breanna will be one of my cohosts for the experience. >>> pushback against the california bill related to gender and our youth. why some >>> let's shift our focus now to the journey that lgbtq+ youth are facing in today's world. here in california, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are proposing bills related to the issue of gender. one of the proposals is a be 957 which passed would include child gender in custody cases. it says that when a judge determines cus

. >> reporter: breanna sinclair says her voice makes her a vessel. she will never know, she says, who is in the crowd hearing it, who in the crowd maybe sees her, for her, for the first time, while listening. but, she knows that people can change and says there is hope. >> there is hope for the trans and gender nonconforming community. we are in a very difficult time but i believe there is light at the end of the tunnel and there is only one way, and that is up. we will survive this. we will get through this. >> reporter: getting through until the message in the anthem applies to all. >> her voice takes your breath away. absolutely stunning. >> such a powerful voice. and that is one of the hardest songs to sing in a live audience, imagine carrying that extra weight on top of your shoulders as you are walking into that stadium in front of a live audience. >> that was overwhelmingly beautiful. can you also imagine being in the audience and hearing that live? i want to go sit in the theater . >> so powerful. >>> coming up, all-new at 5:30, it is the lar