let me give you some advice. next time you re doing a big high profile television interviewer and you feel the interviewer is mischaracterizing your gender. my advice is say something. don t pretend it s all gone very well and shake the interviewer s hand afterwards and thank him and then go off five days later and ignite a social media fire some of abuse in his direction. that isn t fair, either. so i don t try and equate my struggle in life with yours. the i ve had it pretty easy by comparison. your book remains a great, inspiring book. i remain a great supporter of the transgender community. i hope we can both move on from this. i appreciate you coming back on the show tonight. thank you. thank you. when we come back, jerry seinfeld. is he a victim of political correctness run amuck? this is what he said to buzz feed. i have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. but everyone else is kind of with their little calculating, is this time exact right mix?
she also appears after all this time she spent with you, to be laboring under the massive misapprehension that you have repeatedly referred to yourself as having been a boy, who then went through againeder reassignment surgery and became a woman. now, that is perhaps where the confusion lay. because that s the original piece that sparked all the attention about it that piece should not have been the basis of our interview, piers. i wrote the record of my life. i wrote it. i took me three years to write that. it took me years to be the first person in my family to go to college, to be able to have access to those resources and to write this book and to live my life. and my entire life i ve been told that who i am is wrong and should be kept silent. and so for me, that marie claire piece is not the basis of my life. my life is in redefining realness this book that is a gift. not for me. it s a gift to young girls like me growing up so that they can know that who they are is real an
i sent three tweets. but janet, they were important tweets to me. and important tweets to i tweeted them at the framework of your show and how they were packaging this story that we did. our exchange was completely fine. but when you package something with the headline until 18 was a boy and also say formerly a man when in talk about my beloved, the love of my life and our interaction together, that is false advertising. and that is infotainment. what is false about people who worked at people magazine, i understand that sensationalizing our stories entices people to look in. [ overlapping speakers ] janet, with the greatest of respect, and i mean with the greatest of respect, you ve written a book redefining realness, my path to womanhood. my path to womanhood, identity, love and so much more. i ve got the marie claire article that started your whole media profile.
i had already, about two weeks before that, made a commitment to be with senate ever john mccain in jacksonville. president bush was coming to pensacola. so i called governor bush, my friend, the president s brother obviously and i said jeb, i got word your brother is coming to pensacola. i already have a commitment to go with senator mccain? is there any way you can check into this? he said, are the tickets printed? i go into more detail in the book. but the long and short of it was, i ended up honoring my original commitment with senator mccain in jacksonville. the next morning i get a call from karl rove. he s screaming at the top of his voice, saying you chicken you know what. you were going to win any way, just went on and on and on. it was unbelievable. i was unhinged, just unhinged. i felt sorry for him to be honest with you. god speed.
presence. she appears after all this time she spent with you this journalist to be laboring under the massive misapprehension that you have repeatedly referred to yourself as having been a boy who then went through gender reassignment surgery and became a woman. now, that is perhaps where the confusion lay. because that s the original piece that sparked all the attention about. that piece should not have been the basis of our interview though, piers. i wrote the record of my life. i wrote it. i took me three years to write that. it took me years to be the first person in my family to go to college, to be able to have access to those resources and to write this book and to live my life. and my entire life i ve been told that who i am is wrong and should be kept silent. and so for me, that marie claire piece is not the basis of my life. my life is in redefining realness this book that is a gift. not for me. it s a gift to young girls like me growing up so that they can know that who