Transgender boy bullied commits suicide.

Transgender boy’s mom sues hospital, saying he ‘went into spiral’ after staff called him a girl 

Overcome with anxiety and depression, the Southern California teen committed suicide in May 2015, his mother said.
In the weeks before his death, Kyler had been treated for "suicidal ideation," Katharine Prescott said: She had taken him to the emergency room at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, which has a Gender Management Clinic to treat children with gender dysphoria and other related issues.
"In that moment, he was in crisis," she recalled. He was admitted into the hospital's youth psychiatry unit for a 72-hour suicide hold, she said.

But while at Rady Children's, hospital employees kept referring to Kyler as a girl, and "he went into a spiral," his mother said in a phone interview.
"He was frantic," she said. "They were making him worse. They were completely traumatizing him."
On Monday, Prescott brought a civil lawsuit against Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego in U.S. District Court in Southern California, claiming that during Kyler's stay at the facility, medical personnel violated federal and state laws that protect against discrimination.

Prescott stressed that she is not blaming the hospital for her transgender son's death. But she wants to hold it accountable to "make sure that doesn't happen to any other kids."
Rady Children’s officials said in a statement to The Washington Post that their "top priority is providing the absolute highest level of care to our patients and families. While it is the policy of Rady Children’s not to comment on pending legal matters, any allegations of wrongdoing, including discrimination, are investigated thoroughly and followed up on."

The lawsuit comes at an important time for members of the transgender community, who have been fighting in U.S. courts for civil rights — namely the ability to use their desired public restrooms and locker rooms. One of Prescott's attorneys, Alison Pennington with the Transgender Law Center, told NBC News that the civil suit may be the first time a case involving a transgender child has claimed sex-based discrimination under the Affordable Care Act.

"When my son was in despair, I entrusted Rady Children’s Hospital with his safety and well-being," Prescott said. "Hospitals are supposed to be safe places that help people when they’re in need. Instead of recovering at the hospital, Kyler got worse because staff continued to traumatize him by repeatedly treating him as a girl and ignoring his serious health issues.

"It’s painful to speak out, but I want to make sure no other parent or child ever has to go through this again."

Kyler was born a female on July 7, 2000. At 10, he started dressing more masculine and making friends almost entirely with boys, according to court documents. "When he was twelve, due to increasing gender dysphoria, Kyler began engaging in self-harming behaviors," according to the documents.
After Kyler's 13th birthday, his mother said, he announced: "Mom, I'm not a girl; I'm a boy."
"He was scared," his mother said. "I think for almost all transgender youth, telling their parents is extremely difficult."
"I told him, 'You know what? I love you no matter what. Whatever we need to do, I will always support you.' It doesn't mean it wasn't confusing to me or challenging to me. ... But once I wrapped my head around it, it became this wonderful, beautiful thing to see him blossom into the person he was meant to be."
He cut his hair short. He bought boys' clothes. And his mother helped him legally change his name and gender marker.
The American Psychological Association describes transgender people as those whose gender identity — an "internal sense of being male, female or something else" — or gender expression is different from their biological sex.
The association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) states that to be diagnosed with "gender dysphoria," a person must express a mismatch between the gender he associates with and the one he was born with, and it must persist for at least six months. "This condition causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning," it states.
As puberty hit, Kyler struggled more with gender dysphoria, his mother said.
Last year, after Kyler's suicide, his mother discussed her son's struggles in a televised interview with Caitlyn Jenner.
"He was a beautiful kid with a beautiful soul," Prescott said on "I Am Cait." "Kyler was truly an amazing, amazing kid. I was proud of him for working so hard to be his authentic self."
It didn't come easy.
Prescott said many people assume Kyler was bullied by other children. But that wasn't really the case.
"Really, where he had the most problems was with adults not understanding," she told Jenner. "People out in society that really didn't understand that he needed them to use a male pronoun."


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