that the shower facilities were in the center of the university and professors and others went into the male facilities. it was an open shower that anyone could go in. he also said that he s spoken to other coaches, that they also didn t know the abuse was going on. and here is jim jordan in his own words minutes ago from ohio mike russell for us was was a friend, but something s changed. it s you know, things he said are just not true. we knew of no abuse, never heard of abuse. if we had, we d of reported it. and if, in fact, there is problems, we want justice for the people who are victims obviously. and as i said, we re happy to talk with with the folks who are doing the investigation. but nothing that i mean, things they said about me just were flat-out not true. reporter: and congressman jordan goes on to say that he has gotten emails from the
following the law because the district continues to deny a female student the right to use the girl s locker room. but the transgender student had said that protect her own privacy, she would use privacy curtains inside the locker room if they are available. now they are available, but the department of education says it s not good enough. and if she is not allowed to shower with the rest of the girls within 30 days, the district could lose millions in federal funding. the unnamed student applauds the ruling saying the district s policy made her feel like she was a normal person or not a normal person. but the district is still fighting it saying the students in our schools are teenagers, not adults. and one s jegender is not the se anatmy. there are open changing areas and open shower facilities for a reason. several students sign a squool petition asking that she be allowed to use the girl s locker rooms. but many students say she should
separate shower facilities. some may ask for different berthing. some may quit the service. we ll deal with that. but i believe and history tells us that most of them about l. put aside personal proclivities for something larger than themselves and for each other. we re trying to read the tea leaves. one of the other interesting moments was from senator scott brown of massachusetts. he is one of those people who could be persuaded to vote for a repeal p he was waiting for this report. he talked to secretary gates, asked him if he was going wait to certify this until he assured that everything could be implemented smoothly and secretary gates assured him that it would. those are the kind of questions that make this hearing so important to whether or not this appeal could actually go through the senate. so here s the question. are we likely to get a senate vote on repealing don t ask don t tell? that is a complicated
look at how the troops felt about other social changes whether integrating african-americans, opening up combat opportunities for women, had you taken a survey those things, and you paid attention to it, those things would never have happened. reporter: you know, nobody knows what would happen. what if 90% of the 400,000 surveyed come back and say, hey, i don t think i can cope with it. i don t think it s a good idea. nobody thinks that s going to happen but nobody is really ready for that potential scenario. so what is this survey all about? more than 100 questions out to the troops, wolf, and we now know what some of those are. some of the categories had the question, what would be the impact on unit morale or readiness if your commander in your unit was openly gay or lesbian? if you had to share a room, shower facilities, a bathroom with someone in a war zone, another service member believed to be gay or lesbian could you do it? how would you react? what would you do? how would yo