I'm sure this kid will be called many names in her lifetime. Which is one of many reasons I think it's not a choice. Honestly, I feel like if you're not willing review the research behind why transgenders exist, your opinion holds less weight.
I remember cheering for Powder Springs Cowboys in the early eighties and there was a girl who played football.
She probably will get called names. It's not nice or fair; but children have called other kids who were different names since the human race began. I got teased as a child; I was smallish (if you can believe that) and had a honker of a nose. I also wore glasses, so I got the 4-eyes jokes. Most of us got teased about something.
I'm not sure any of us really know what's going on inside a transgender's head. Some of you think they really are a ___trapped in a___'s body. I lean toward psychological issues. But actually having surgery or taking drugs to alter one's body is a choice. There are always consequences, whether good or bad, to every choice we make. And though teasing or bullying isn't nice, it's a reality we should be prepared for when we make such choices.
The reality is that transgenders will never fully be what they seek to be. They are both and yet neither. Realistically, how many guys will date the "girl" referenced in this story? Sadly, she will always be considered a freak by most of society. I find this heart-breakingly sad that this child will have to endure this. Is "she" really better off now? And "she" will never be able to have children now. That probably doesn't matter at this time, but it very well might later on.
Honestly, I have a real issue with a parent allowing a minor child to change their gender. To large degree, there's no turning back from what you're done to your body. What if it was mental illness that drove this child to change it's gender? What if it could have been treated with therapy so he could have become a happy and healthy boy? The poor child will never know now.
Did you know that over 40% of transgenders attempt suicide? That doesn't indicate that their gender reassignments are solving their problems.
Do you still think I haven't reviewed the research? Do you think I don't care?
I just think we're dealing with this the wrong way. And many of the transgenders are the victims.
But again when talking of high school students it is so very wrong to call them names. I have never heard that used in the same way as calling someone a dork, and by the context of her cheating and the it is not right, it also did not seem to be the same as me saying, "GD, you are a dork!" (while that is true...) 
