Kate Sosen isn't especially conflicted about being trans.

Being trans to me is my favorite thing about myself.

I love being trans.

It's like the best.

I mean, you just see the world in such a better way, I think.

Kate's a reporter with the 19th goes by they-them pronouns.

And Kate's got this great way of talking about being non-binary.

So many of us, without realizing it, are like sitting on a conveyor bill of gender, right?

Like, we put on the clothes that are in the aisles that we're told to walk through, right?

Like, I just love the ways that being trans has opened the world to me.

Gender is so, such a rigid social construct, right?

Like, men have been denied access to their emotions.

You know, women have been denied the right to work or get paid fairly.

When you are non-binary trans, like I am, you don't have to operate from all of those set of prescriptions.

But as much as Kate loves who they are, they acknowledge it's a pretty weird time to be a trans reporter.

Kate covers lawmaking around LGBTQ plus issues.

And just last week, Kate watched as Donald Trump did an extended riff on the dangers of trans kids in sports at the conservative political action conference.

And this was just after the first trans person to have a Senate confirmation hearing got grilled by Republicans.

Now, Kate's tracking the way state legislatures are trying to spin this animus

into rules around who's allowed to do what in this country. Kate says, the funny thing is,

while plenty of politicians are talking about people like them, very few politicians are talking to people like them.

I have in the past talked to Republican lawmakers in state legislatures about these kinds of bills,

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