I believe that you will find stories similar to this in any transgender persons history. I blame the parents......I suspect that many Leftist parents want to be held up as extremely tolerant by their Leftist peers. They encourage the LGBTQ behaviors for theiri child so they can reap the rewards of the attention of their identity group. The child is the one who suffers for the rest of their life.......breaks my heart.
You are absolutely right - having a gender/sexually deluded (or perhaps deceived) child is a kind of status symbol amongst leftists. There are occasionally cases where gender is not entirely clear when a child is born, and of course that is different. But, in most cases, kids are being recruited and steered to this crap, and that is IMHO criminal.