here with me now to discuss in no, tiq milan, a senior media strategist of national news at glaad, andicago espn.com writer and editor christina kahrl. welcome to you both. >> thank you. thank you, brian. >> christina, you wrote an essay for grantland about what went wrong in this case. tell me what you think the difficulties are for the media in writing about transgender men and women. >> well, some of it is just basically a privacy issue and not ceding the ground to the trans people who should control their own narratives and sense of who they are. not every trans person is entirely comfortable with their past and the gender that they were born into. not every trans person wants to have to explain that. basically, especially in a case like essay anne, she wanted to be seen as a woman. as far as was jermaine to the story she should have been seen as a woman. >> and what were the mistakes in the reporting process then? seems like one of them was perhaps outing dr. v to a person who did not know about her identity. >> that was a massive mistake. i mean, as much as bill simmons appropria

as you can imagine glaad filed a complaint and naacp. >> there's something called the first amendments the word police. political correctness. >> jon: yes, i, too, have a problem with the word of police. it's by far the worst law and order spinoff. i don't care for it. [ laughter ] look, i think what the guy said is ignorant but i have an inclination to support a world where saying ignorant (bleep) on television doesn't get you kicked off that medium. [cheers and applause] but i guess i stand with the free speech absolutists at fox news who don't believe you should pressure people to have to adhere to cultural norms of speech mostly. >> why are so many towns removing the word and the name christmas. >> isn't it discriminating against christians by calling it a holiday tree. >> christmas is cyst mat it's the religion for christians. respect it. >> some people are busy trying to erase chris mast from the culture. >> it's a xmas tree it's christmas. >> people are going happy holidays. >> do you debate that there are all kinds of instances where christmas is struck from the lexicon. >> wh

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. >> reporter: over the weekend juan pablo called glaad to apologize. >> he called me and said he wass a lot of lgbt parents and truly did not mean to say what he said. >> reporter: he explains that english is his second language and that the word "pervert" is not what i meant to say and i am very sorry about it. what i meant to say is gay people are more affectionate and intense and for a segment of the tv audience this would be too racy to accept on sunday he tweeted "i wonder how many people upset/disappointed at me speaks another language." abc and "the bachelor"'s production company warner horizon released this statement quart juan pablo's comments were careless thoughtless and insensitive and in no way reflect the views of the network, the show's producers or studio." now he said he'll meet with glaad in person this week. >> he wants to help educate people about lgbt parenting and issues so we are taking him up on that. >> reporter: for "good morning america," gio benitez, abc news new york. >> all right, gio, thank you. >>> coming up emma thompson seems to be having more fun th

. >> tom foreman, glaad good explanation. thanks very much.o you. >> let's talk about it with our panelists. paul krugman, "new york times" columnist, grover norquist, and also the mayor of baltimore, stephanie roll lings blake. paul, you saw tom's report. what role does government have in trying to address this is inequality and how do they go about it? >> first of all, taxes and spending. and by the way, obama has already done much more than people give him credit for. i've been a pretty harsh critic of him. but in terms of mitigating some of the consequences, he's done quite a lot. first of all, taxes. he's restored a lot of the progressivity of our tax system. the effect of tax rate on the 1% is back up to about what it was in 1979. if you just look at that measure, it obama has rolled us back to prerate levels of average. not all the rates are the same, but the overall level of taxation on 1% is back up what used to be considered reasonably high levels. health reform is a huge benefit in terms of economic security to lower income american

he's working with glaad, a watchdog group, and plans on meeting this week with gay and lesbian families a show of support. >> will you accept this rose? >> reporter: he's the leading man in "the bachelor's" 18th season, a former pro soccer player making headlines for what he told shawn daly of the tv page. >> you might think those things privately, but you don't say them in the media without it coming to smack you in the back of the head. >> reporter: daly asked if it would be a good idea to have a gay or bisexual bachelor. >> no. >> why not? >> just because i respect them, but honestly, i don't think it's a good example for kids to watch that on tv. >> he went on to say this. >> it seems to me, you know, and don't know if i'm mistaken or not. i met, great, have a lot of friends. they're more pervert in a sense. >> reporter: abc and producers called the comments thoughtless and insensitive. social media was quick to react. "you're the last person to make moral judgments on people, you're dating 25 women at the same time." juan pablo galavis posted an apology on facebook writing, "perver

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