This story is so very heartfelt and touching! It is wonderful that more and more parents (and medical professionals) are recognizing gender identity as a very real phenomenon. Hopefully soon the language will evolve from calling it 'gender identification disorder' instead to something less like a disease or illness. In my humble opinion, gender is a spectrum... and there is no wrong place to be on that spectrum. -There is only the right place, for each individual and their own body and their own sense of self-expression, and of course their own happiness.
Read this touching article, watch the video... It's worth the few minutes!