Again, I bring up my great-nephew, who began life as my great-niece. No ideology or school teaching produced the struggle that led to him, in his early teens, to approach his mom with this news. Previous bouts of IBS began to lessen, and then disappear, as he came to this realization. I can't pretend to understand this. I do agree with the Holy Father that telling children that they can choose their gender is wrong, just as telling them that they can choose to abort babies is wrong. But this child's experience was way beyond anyone telling him who he might be or become.