he is, and how no matter what i am in his corner. and i love him, and i always will. he s my son. that was nbc s kate snow reporting there. part two of kate s report will air tonight on nbc nightly news. coming up in the next hour jacob s parents will join me live here, 2:30 eastern on msnbc live. this has been the subject of our bing pulse question today. let s check in with frances to say how you re responding. what are folks saying? craig as parents, both of us of two young kids, you can understand the tough predicament for the lemays. we re getting viewers involved, asking if you think a preschooler can understand gender identity. so we launched the poll at the top of the hour. we want to bring it up to date where we stand. it s dropped a bit now at 46% who think a preschooler can t understand gender identity. 54% say yes, you can. when we started earlier in the
these are the stakes we re dealing with here. it comes down to not just his happiness and ability to be himself but his pure mental health. we ve been asking viewers to weigh in do you think a preschooler can understand gender identity. during the course of the conversation, numbers shifted dramatically. 71% do believe a preschooler can understand gender identity. i ve got to be honest with you, the fact that the number is so one sided, that surprises me. does it surprise you at all? i don t know for myself i wasn t so sure of it until i experienced this, so this experience has did he have netly shifted my opinion. if it shifted others i m an optimist by nature always been. and i believe that people are good and that people at heart, most people have the interest of others at heart. they just need to experience
just coming about. if they re racists they need to get over it. a story we re following closely. we ll have much more coming up the next hour. switching gears now to a story by nbc news that is getting a lot of attention. correspondent kate snow brought us this moving story about transgender children. she followed jacob, a happy, healthy, and well-adjusted preschooler with two sisters. but it wasn t always this way. in the beginning, his parents were raising three daughter. i remember crying because i i imagined her being on the playground and nobody playing with her. imagined her going through high school not having a date. honestly, still worry about that because i think we have a long way to go as a society to accept transgender people. i feel we re on the way. we ll have much more on this story, as well, in the next hour. i m going to talk to jacob s parents here at about 2:30 on more than live. this story, as you might
freezer to put it in my belly so i don t die this winter. weather in the arctic is unpredictable. every sign says big bad winter again. i have to be prepared for snow, cold, pretty much the whole gamut. that looked like new jersey this winter. i was going to say the east coast got a little bit of that i needed to share. this is the star of nat geo s life below zero. where do you get your grit? some things you re just born with. i knew i was a little bit different, even as a preschooler when they asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up, i wanted to be light house keeper. you ve talked about the trouble with grizzlies and wolves. you are in a desperate situation. you showed us during the commercial i know you can t reveal how this happens, do you mind what s going on with your
at age 3 jeff and hillary whittington s child was trying to tell them something. their daughter just a pre-schooler at the time wanted them to understand she did not feel like a girl. she would shout i m a boy. the decisions this family made and the journey they are taking all part of a new cnn film. here s a preview. we went to the pre-school for open house and all the kids had their self-portraits up and she made a vest and a tie and short hair before you even had short hair huh? you made this when you had long hair but knew what you looked like inside your head. you have chip on your face dude. i made short hair. is that you trying to tell us something? and i can t. why couldn t you? because you were 3? mommy and daddy didn t understand yet, did we? no.