I'd stake my retirement on this being just another lying homo-hoax. Just like the "no-tip" waitress receipt, the back-flip "gay bashing," or Matthew Sheppard's murderer's intent, these lies fuel their narrative.
I wouldn't even be surprised if some school "LGBT" counselor put him up to this.
No, he is a genuine activist from UK trying to help other young people avoid surgical sex change as a solution to their confused feelings.
Pardon me, fwdude, I just read that he was from LA, not UK. My mistake — I first learned about him in a UK newspaper. As one of the posters said above, don’t expect the US press to allow him any space to say that the trans thing is a crock.