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. the clothes changed and mom and dad began using the male pronoun and ev evie became evan. >> until that moment he was sullen hostile but the proof is he became a much easier kid to raise. everything seemed the soften for evan when we started the transition for him. >> the change in evan's emotional state was dramatic. but when his family came around the kids at school were a different story. >> there's no physical violence but there's huge mental. they hurt my feelings. not just my feelings. like they tried so hard to make me break down, or do something. >> and school wouldn't be his only challenge. another transition was fast approaching. one evan and his parents deeply feared. the onset of puberty. because evan is biol