christof putzel found when he met young people in transition at 12. >> he rides scooters and rough-houses with his friends. but unlike most boys he is biologically a girl. evan has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, a condition where one's psychological identity is opposite to one's sex. like many transgender children evan suffered from depression, even at times felt suicidal. the feeling of being trapped in the wrong body and no one understanding was almost too much to bear. >> we're trying to pigeonholing him into tomboy. and it's not working. we bond and bought him like this $100 bike from whatever sport store. and he doesn't want it. >> i said i don't want the bike. it was too girlie. i didn't want it. it was pink with flames on it. and so i was like giving it to zena ike. , no i'm a boy. >> i'm like woof, i get it. he's been saying it for five years in english but now i get it. i kept trying to make him not be a boy. >> he says oh you mean you're like a boy. that switch flipped in her head. she's not like, you can't be trans. >> i'm like i'm sorry, i get it. >> the hair was cut. t

as "america tonight's" christof putzel found, shocking flaws in the system. >> marv and linda lost their son jason last august. the 35-year-old former marine didn't die in a combat zone overseas, he died at the time toma medical center in wisconsin. >> he was sleeping with his hand on his side on his head and i said jason what's the matter with you, he was like sh sh sh sh. i said jason i can't understand you. i went back to the nurse's station and said what's wrong with him, he can't even talk. she said we gave him some medication for migraine, he'll be all right. but he wasn't all right. the toma va told them jason's headache had been caused an aneurysm. but the to tox report was different. >> all told, the medical examiner found 13 different medications in jason's system. >> at the end they had him so drugged up he took a drug to get up in the morning and keep him going and he had to take many drugs to go to sleep. it was ovicious circle. >> it was a difficult situation for jason after his four years in the marines ended in 2000. he got married and had a daughter and joined marv in th