 Well hello everybody. It is equality time. It is Friday five o'clock. My name is Laurie and I'm this is Carissa. How's everybody? I said before that this is not wished on any other soul. You know transitioning sucks but I'm a woman through and through. I met a new co-worker this week and she said oh my gosh I just can't believe like you look the 100% female to me. You act 100% female. I could not see a trace of male in you and that meant a lot to me. She told me that today before I got here. It was October 19th that I dressed in public for the first time constantly not just to a doctor's appointment or anything just full-time and I've been full-time ever since two years ago today. So by the time I got back from Fantasia Fair and knowing yet how well I was accepted by the queer community and how I was told by other trans women there that I was actually gorgeous. I'm like that's not possible. I knew I felt different by age of eight. I would want to be that little girl and I'd want my nails done you know as a little kid. I used to color them myself with crayons and or paint or pencil. Later on in my teen years in my 20s I felt like wanting to be feminine was bad. I felt like it was naughty, sexual, kinky, erotic. The third woman that I was with became my wife and my point was to be as physically fit, strong, muscular. Anything I could do to impress my wife was I was desperate to keep the marriage because my parents were divorced when I was five and I didn't want to repeat their mistakes but it didn't work. I've been out ever since and never looked back but it's been a hard hard road. I don't want to be transgender. I still don't like it. This is not a choice. No one wishes this on anybody. I've asked lots of trans people. All of them say I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy but we have to do this to survive because it's either be a dead man or a happy woman. Do either of you support transgender rights? Yeah. Transgender, fantastic. Me too. So transgender issues are really important to me because I'm a queer woman and my partner is trans. Why are transgender issues important to you guys? I mean I just feel like people should be accepted no matter what. I mean it shouldn't matter what background. It's the same thing as like women's rights or people who come from different ethnicities. Under this law, men can demand to be treated as if they actually are women even if they haven't had surgery or hormones or medical diagnosis. They don't even need to identify as a woman consistently. In fact, a registered sex offender could abuse this law to gain access to women in various stages of undress and women who object to this invasion of their privacy by a male body can be punished criminally and financially if they speak up or try to stop it. And it's ironic how many folks more on the right or side of the spectrum believe and don't tread on me yet they tread.