Trans Men and Women Talk Gender

Laverne Cox speaks on stage at 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards In New York on May 9, 2015 in New York City.

This segment originally aired live on June 11, 2015. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on August 28, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here.

Earlier in the week, the journalist and feminist Elinor Burkett said she didn't understand how a transgender woman could know what it feels like to have gone through life as a woman -- or to be a woman. So transgender listeners -- women and men -- call in and tell us what your gender means to you.