The gender neutral one she was offered to be honest. Not sure why you all act like teenage girls are so safe. Do you not watch Youtube?
the thing is there needs to be boundaries and some kind of legislation passed because, like it or not trans people are a very, tiny small minority of the population of the world, as such we should accommodate them.
Also more education is definitely important. Hell the story said she began to feel like a girl at age 13. to ME that sounds like she decided she wanted to be a girl, in which case, its not society's job to accommodate your lifestyle choice.
Can someone explain to me why it should be different than say, being gay? when people who are gay are born gay, that's them, their person and being and has always been that way.
Just like i've seen trans people speak who say they knew, since they could remember they were in the wrong body. That again, is understandable, but to me, someone deciding, "well i feel like a girl now," shouldn't get those same accommodations.
How would you tell? you wouldn't, but society needs something they can latch onto, and that seems as good of a criteria as any.