next we visit university of kansas professor donald hater markel co-editor of transgender rights and politics which explores issues important to the transgender community. >> traditionally, when you think about lgbt rights and think about, say, laws that ban sexual orientation discrimination, what has -- as these laws have been considered at the state level and the national level often times to include language like jebder identity -- gender identity, many people believed that would simply be a kind of poison pill addition to legislation, that it would kill a bill or any chances that that bill could pass if you attached terms like gender identity to it. whether or not that was entirely true isn't clear, but certainly it meant that most of the time that language was not included, or it failed to be

next we visit university of kansas professor donald hater markel co-editor of transgender rights and politics which explores issues important to the transgender community. >> traditionally, when you think about lgbt rights and think about, say, laws that ban sexual orientation discrimination, what has -- as these laws have been considered at the state level and the national level often times to include language like jebder identity -- gender identity, many people believed that would simply be a kind of poison pill addition to legislation, that it would kill a bill or any chances that that bill could pass if you attached terms like gender identity to it. whether or not that was entirely true isn't clear, but certainly it meant that most of the time that language was not included, or it failed to be added to existing legislation. since some of the advances with same-sex marriage as well as other advances in the lgbt movement, there's sort of been what they call coming back for the t coming back for the transgender rights issues coming back for adding gender identity to local and state