brayden dailey has a easier time than most. >> i get hit on by a lot of girls here. >> dailey claims she is not just a lesbian but a man born into a woman's body. >> when you are transgender, your brain has a sex. and my sex was male. >> is that you? >> yeah. >> on the right. >> you look like such a skater punk. >> yeah. >> that's what i did. >> besides feeling like she is in the wrong body, dailey also sees herself not as a 21-year-old but as a teenager. >> and we were like exploding it everywhere and stuff. >> this one. >> i'm not even like an adult in my head yet. i'm not even there yet. i feel like a 15, 16-year-old boy, i mean, it's nothing i can really help. >> ha, ha. >> there is a deodorant. we're going to get a write-up. >> nothing to do in here. >> dailey's conflict with her gender and age is what brought her to jail. at 19 she began dating a 14-year-old girl who thought dailey was a boy. >> we went to the movies, all of a sudden she wanted to do stuff and like sexual stuff in the movies. and i didn't want to because she thought i was a guy. >> although dailey claims nothin

." >> reporter: here at the ohio air national guard base near toledo, lieutenant colonel frank dailey can't believe the honor recently bestowed upon him. >> it's incredible being recognized in such a manner. >> reporter: it happened at a cracker-barrel, of all places. as the security camera shows, lieutenant colonel dailey entered the restaurant on february 7 for an early lunch. at about the same time, eight- year-old myles eckert came in with his family. myles, in the green hoodie, was very excited. he'd just found a $20 bill in the parking lot. just sitting there? >> yeah. >> reporter: did you start thinking what you could spend it on? >> i kind of wanted to get a video game, but then i decided not to. >> reporter: he changed mind when he saw that guy in uniform. >> because he was a soldier, and soldiers remind me of my dad. >> reporter: and so, with his dad in mind, myles wrapped the 20 in a note that read, "dear soldier, my dad was a soldier. he's in heaven now. i found this $20 in the parking lot when he got here. we like to pay it forward in my family. it's your lucky day. thank