obama responded to naafa's message?merous messages and challenges in the past couple of years to her and have no idea of whether or not she has actually received them. and we have not received any kind of response whatsoever to our message please, don't continue to stigmatize the five children. any other questions? the top military officials, they've done a survey called to fat to fight, where people are being excluded for the military qualifications or the physical constraints of not being able to be in fitness. how do you square the advocacy of accepting certain body sizes versus certain jobs that require someone to have leave certain body type we are not scientists or doctors or health care providers, we are civil rights organizations and we want you to accept the fact that in spite of our body size we are citizens of the united states and nothing nothing should reduce the civil rights, nothing justifies taking away our civil rights. and that individuals are being discriminated against on a daily basis. we are discri

obama responded to naafa's message? sent numerous messages and challenges in the past couple of years to her. have no idea whether or not she has actually received them. and we have not received any kind of response whatsoever to our message of, please, don't continue to stigmatize the fat children. any other questions? . . >> we're not a health organization. we're not scientists or doctors. or health care providers. we're civil rights organizations. and we want you to accept the fact that in spite of our body size, we are citizens of the united states. and nothing -- nothing should reduce our civil rights. nothing justifies our civil rights. fat individuals are being discriminated against on a daily basis. we're discriminated in employment situations, often not hired because of our body size. in health care situations, very often told by physicians that if we lost weight, our allergies would go away. and other such ridiculous things as that. and often in our own homes, by our well-intended family members or friends or

. >> i joined naafa in the early 1990's. was 2005 before i became a member of the board of directors. this act falls short of protecting all children from bullying. naafa was created in 1969 to eliminate description based on body sides. in recent years, most of our focus has been on adults with high body weight. a few years ago our focus began to turn to children. that is not to say that there has been any decrease in discrimination toward adults. the opposite is true. discrimination continues to increase against higher-weighted people and has only continued to increase. now we are talking about people of all ages. we began to see so-called interventions, where children of a higher body weight were being taken from their homes. taken from loving parents. they were now being accused of abusing their children by feeding them the wrong things or too much of the wrong things. naafa became involved and attempted to assist the parents of the children, who were literally being kidnapped from their homes by state governmental agenci

. >> in response to your question about what actions have been taken earlier this year, last -- -- naafa sent out a packet encouraging suspected members of the community to write to committee members and address this issue of adding height and weight or physical appearance to the law. we have received some response. i wrote to every single one of them personally, and have received responses from some of them expressing their appreciation for bringing that to their attention. other questions? >> does s 506 has the same sponsors as the old legislation? >> i do not know. >> can we hear what other countries have done to address this issue? >> would you like to speak to that? >> this is a global issue. you can watch the media in europe, france, the u.k. court cases bring it up. it is obviously an issue that covers a lot of different areas of criminal codes and civil rights codes. some have mandated schools themselves be the ones to deal with bullying. others see it as more dependent on what country you are from -- township, state, provincial level. there has been a movement in canada for a fe