Pete Buttigieg talks with Stephen Colbert about the significance of being an openly gay cabinet member

Wow. Watching Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speak in defense of transgender kids in school got me a bit choked up: “These kids have the courage to be who they are and they want to be accepted and go to the bathroom and play sports like everybody else – and live.” He added: “I hope it will prove to not be good politics to pick on transgender kids when these political attacks and terrible laws get beaten back.”