Good God! Why hasn’t this kid been fostered into a family with the knowledge to deal with normal childish fantasies? Anyone with a brain should be able see this is s form of child abuse, like Munchausen by Proxy- and apparently has been going on awhile. Some family member should have insisted that the MOTHER go to therapy, never mind the kid.
Unless a baby is born a hermaphrodite, or its sex organs do not match its DNA as male/female, then the child is not “transgender”, period-a person can convince themselves that they are a space alien, but that does not make it reality...
And plenty of kids are enamored of being of the opposite gender-hell, I work in a male dominated profession, prefer the company of men at work and as friends, etc- I also wear makeup, have long hair and I’m totally heterosexual when it comes to the physical stuff.
I was a tomboy, and said I’d rather be a boy as a little kid, too, but I had real parents, so that my liking of cars, playing sports, physical work, etc co-exist quite nicely with perfume, high heels, having been married to a man and being a mom. Parenting is apparently no longer a necessary or respected skill...
One of my highschool friends was a hermaphrodite who chose female early on with no interference from her parents. When she became an adult she finished the process surgically.
She was always reasonably well adjusted because no one interfered with the direction she chose. She was just one of the hometown crowd to us.