Transgender 2001: RSI's Sunday Press Conference

A festive banner points the way to Chicago's Rikki Swin Institute. Inside, a press party and conference round out RSI's inaugural week.

RSI Founder Rikki Swin opens the press conference as National Public Radio and (ever-ready) French Television capture the moment. Family law attorney Alyson Meiselman, who specializes in human and civil rights, and gender and sexual law, discusses the need for greater recognition of trans persons by the legal community.

Stephen Whittle, Senior Lecturer in Law at Manchester University and Vice President of the UK's Press for Change, talks about working to reform British Laws regarding the rights of trans people. NPR's Jackie Northam records Deirdre McCloskey (left), Economics Professor at the University of Chicago, and Alison Laing, Secretary of the IFGE Board and Co-chair of Transgender 2001.