I am sympathetic, because it's not his fault that a) The father is not around and b) his mother indulges his 'feminine side' instead of wondering what's wrong.
I think that this is a PRIME example of the news media grabbing a very isolated case and hyping it up, all in the name of 'proving' that this sort of thing happens all the time. No wonder people have such a skewed view of reality today.
As I wrote in an earlier post, perhaps this poor kid's gender problem is biologically based...so what? That just means something went WRONG. Should an alcoholic whose alcoholism is determined to be genetic be allowed to show up drunk at work?