The Boy in the Red Dress
Jack Burton is fourteen. He sneaks into his sister's room and tries on some of her clothes and we find out that Jack is, at the least, a cross-dresser. His mother tries to understand and eventually comes to defend him. His father is livid, so much so that it breaks up the family. His sister, who is eighteen, ahs her own agenda.
Emily, his sister, has her own rather massive share of problems and is definitely into drugs and sex. She seems to support Jack, helping him learn how to dress as a girl properly, use makeup, etc. They even go on walks and trips together.
In what is sort of unrealistic Jack, now Jackie, continues to get along fairly well in school once he starts dressing as a girl. The other girls defend him and the boys generally have nothing to do with him. He is very happy dressing as a girl.
Then everything falls apart with major problems with his sister, the father who is obsessed with stopping Jack from dressing as a girl, a death, and something really terrible happening to Jack/Jackie at a party.
As far as I can tell Jack is basically a cross-dresser and is not necessariliy actually transgender. He is attracted to boys which could fit being gay or being trans male-to-female. He doesn't seem to consider transition very much, though, with only one mention of the process.
It's a very dark story but not at all unrealistic.
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