I imagine the smiling boy in the wheelchair talking in Stephen Hawking's robotic voice: "Help me. I am not a girl. They dress me up against my will."
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I'm going to guess the abusive parents "supported" their kids in their braveness.
Or they pushed it on them. Sad too, a life of pain, anguish, confusion, mental illiness, drug use and eventual suicide.
Sad.