It's like trans narrative bingo.
Am I the only one that feels like this? That I'm trapped in the wrong body?
Born in the wrong body.
As a young child, she changed her name and started dressing as a girl.
Stereotypes.
Dr. Ting considers it a life saving surgery, given the alarming rates of attempted suicide among transgender youth.
Suicide.
Emily's mother, Linda, says "And we knew the statistics and we knew we'd much rather have an alive daughter than a dead son.”
Suicide (again).
Emily says, "It's OK to be who you are and just present to the world as yourself.
But you have to completely change your body in order to present to the world as yourself. 