It’s hard to know where to start dissecting this story.
One thing is for sure, having little or no supervision from responsible parents has to rank up there as the cause. Broken families can ravage a society.
Another one is the level of permissiveness allowed by our societies. A society that allows the freedom to do stupid things at other people’s expense, especially at an immature age is just asking for these types of problems. There have to be boundaries to personal freedom - yes sometimes you can be too strict, but the problem in our case is we are way too lose.
To me this shows how some kids fall into the transgender trap because of spiral thinking and there are no rational adults to step in to stop it. They're easy targets for adults with agendas.
'I feel awkward. There must be something wrong with me. Boys look like they have more fun than girls. If I was a boy I would be just as happy as boys. All my problems would go away if I became a boy'.
Most of her problems were in her thinking process and apparently she didn't feel comfortable talking things over with mom and dad. The result was she fell into a pit of confusion in her own mind.