Boy can't change his DNA.... Can change the package, but it's still a fella... Constitutes fraud.

don't understand why people get assisitance for such frivilous operations and most of the time at the hardworking taxpayers expense yet when good honest hard working people need gov't and/state aid they get laughed at

Plenty of people see themselves differently than they appear outwardly; its not a disease, its called life. Fat girls feel thin inside, ugly ones feel pretty. Short guys might feel like they were really meant to be tall, and stupid people somehow surmise they might have been meant to be smart. The real disease is thinking you're such an important special snowflake that you dont have to suck it up and either deal with it or pay your own way to your wondrous transformation.

In response to the other comment, actually DNA proves nothing, there are a variety of occurances in which there are XX males, XY females, and XXY or XYY males or females, or intersex babies. Some intersex people produce both XX and XY cells. Most intersex babies have surgeries forced upon them at birth to decide their sex. Quite a large percentage of these babies later on transition to the opposite sex to match their internal gender. Also in cases of bone marrow transplants DNA has been known to change. What actually drove me to reply to this article was the statement "born a man." There is no such thing as being "born a man" any more than one could be "born a woman." You are born a BABY and neither sex nor gender is necessarily on a binary scale, but rather a large scale with many points.

DNA is and always will be male... Change the package and it's still and always will be a fella.