masmasculinity, it's very import in our culture. when you come and you tell this to people, that there is, that gender is a spectrum, and that we can all fall in different places, it's they cannot grasp that idea. >> could you grasp it before? >> no. i couldn't. i think they're realize doing a lot of research, a lot of soul-searching. and having an open mind i'm starting to grasp it. >> do you know what trans was? >> we didn' didn't know what transgender meant. i'm learning so many words in english, now learning another one. to look into the future and make certain what we're going to do is going to be able to help roix roxie and move roxie forward as she become an adult. i want to make sure i do whatever i can to make her happy and not feel like she has this condition or this bad thing in her. >> it was the dorm. >> reporter: roxie shares a room with her brother danny. it is easy to determine whose side is whose. >> my mom and i decided we should divide the room. me and my mom painted my side, that is how the split-side. me me me a