doctors believe thousands have gender dysphoria. but it's not recognized especially in children. >> evan is i'm sitting on the toilet running the tub for my children, getting it ready, he comes says, you got to move you got to move. i says go sit down. and me, he says i'm a boy, boys stand up when they me. i think something is going on. >> evan sumped fro suffered from depression, the feeling of being trapped in the wrong body and no one understanding was almost too much to bear. >> we're trying to pigeonholing him into tomboy and it's not working. and we get him this bike and we are a family of four, one income. and we buy him this like $100 bike from you know whatever sports store. and he doesn't want it. he says i don't want that bike. i say why don't you want that bike? it's a girl bike. it's a great bike. it's a girl bike. he says you never listen to me, i'm always telling you things and you're never listening. he's screaming and of course we are in the driveway. >> i said i didn't want the bike, it was too girly, it was pink w

whom sex steroids related switch -- the dutch group had surgery at 18, at which point their gender dysphorial uncomfortableness with their gender disappeared. the dutch found that the kids treated this way are psycho orially functioning as well better than the control group of non-transgender kids they are being compared to. charlie: a powerful argument for surgery? >> a powerful argument for available surgery at the right time for the right people. >> when of the nice things about the dutch approach is it delays puberty. havepuberty sets in, you physical changes that make it much more difficult to reverse. to prevent those physical changes coming, in addition to the biological changes it toays, it allows the child think through whether this is the quest they want to be on. some people say i'm in the wrong body, i want to be a man when they are a woman, but change their mind after a few months. only they allows not physiological process to be handled in a more satisfactory way, but the psychological evaluation to see whether this is the way the kid actually feels or if this is a temporary de

last year, the aclu filed a lawsuit demanding treatment for manning's gender dysphoria, including permission to grow out her hair. while manning has been granted access to hormones and makeup, on friday, the military ruled she must continue to cut her hair short, citing security concerns. in a message on her twitter feed, manning vowed to fight the decision in court. in chicago, a dozen public school parents, grandmothers and education activists have ended a hunger strike over the fate of dyett high school after 34 days. under chicago mayor and former obama chief of staff rahm emanuel, the city has closed about 50 schools in predominantly african-american and latino neighborhoods. earlier this month, under pressure from the hunger strikers, officials announced plans to reopen dyett high school as an arts-focused, open-enrollment school. but the hunger strikers had called for it to become a global leadership and green technology school. they ended their fast saturday amid concerns over the hunger strikers' health. and viola davis has made history, becoming the first african-american to win an