i'm going to ask a question on a different topic but it's a timely question because next month that yosi case will be heard a couple blocks down in the supreme court which involves sexual orientation and gender identity and as you know, to female runners in connecticut nthave filed a complaint with te eoc about gender identity issues with sports. my daughter is an all-american division i athlete, i have talked to her about this issue and she cannot understand how you can possibly have men competing against women in women's sport. let's talk about medical research, a lot of times, this committee has said it's important we study men and women, of erasable question, if you have a trans gender woman who would like to participate in the studyou is there are they going to be assigned to the men or thehe women. sex is genetically determined 99.9% of the time that's what i learned in medical school, maybe i'm wrong, gender may be different. in fact when you're doingrm the research is it or gender important, where are the differences and how would you say that, isn't that discrimination if you sa