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All the teachers that directly work with chris would know, but nobody else would. >> but even with all the careful planning, the class list still said julia. >> since my name hadnt officially been changed, i was nervous about the teachers calling me, like, the wrong name. and, of course, that happened. >> i hopped out of my seat and said, thats the wrong name. it is suppose to be chris. oh, okay. >> chris was successfully transitioning socially, but that could not change his body. it kept develo...

He had, you know, just a lot of intense feelings about it. >> so intense that karina started to teach chris at home where he could be who he was, neither boy nor girl. but one semester of home schooling was enough for chris. >> he said to me that he would rather go to school than be home-schooled and hed rather be dead than go to school as a girl. i saw my job as helping my kids to figure out who they were and helping them to become who they saw themselves as. it kind of felt like my theory is b...

>> chris was starting to feel very panicky. i was starting to feel panicky because of chris reaction. his breasts started developing a little bit, and he got very uncomfortable with that, so we took an ace bandage and would bind him. >> but hope was not lost. the doctor found a cheaper estrogen blocker, one that included tamoxifen, a common breast cancer medication. at age 12, chris had officially begun his medical transition. chris mentor, evan davis, was 49 before he started his physical trans...

Be a boy getting a period. >> he had a little bit of bleeding, like a drop on a piece of toilet paper, and it sent him into a complete panic. so i called the doctor, and he felt it was time to start on the testosterone. >> but the cost is high. taking the shots is a point of no return. it means his ovaries will atrophy and he wont be able to have children. and thats okay with chris. >> i was very thrilled, and evan was very thrilled for me also. >> i was very thankful he doesnt have to go throug...

But making a transition to manhood isnt all about physical changes. the fight for acceptance is crucial and sometimes painful. coming up, chris mari confronts his father who he hasnt seen in eight years. >> chris was upset by his father. he really wanted his father to understand. >> i think that he had never seen this coming. ♪ open up. we have come for the foul, unholy beast. the one with the red markings. the miracle whip? stand aside that we may burn it. [ indistinct shouting ] have you eve...

Home $213 million before taxes. back to our program. they are poodles. which are not very much dogs. but i just like poodles. >> evan davis is new to living as a man and newer to being a mentor to 15-year-old chris. he still feels secure enough in his masculinity to have white poodles as pets. even chris aunt cathy, who continues to refer to chris as julia, thinks evan has been a good influence. >> evan went through everything himself, had to go through all the trials and tribulations. whateve...

Other. >> match. >> yeah, right. >> hes like me in a way no biological child of mine could be. you know, the odds. >> with a gender change in common, its not so strange that evan and chris hit it off, but their story spun into something else, something that nobody had anticipated. >> well, its kind of funny because it happened very quickly, very early on. after the first visit. >> mommy would get up every day, you know, everybody single day, something was on the computer and she was like, i have...

Relationship with his father was over. >> i lived eight years without him so, like, i can live the rest of my life without him. >> chris has not seen his father since. fernando declined our request to fly him in for another reunion or to be interviewed in italy. but chris has long seemed to have moved on, partly with the help of his mentor, evan. >> i think evan will be my dad, you know, be there for me and support me. >> that support was greatly needed when chris started in high school in the f...

So that he can just kind of -- >> follow in your footsteps. >> -- observe and sort of absorb it as time goes by. its not like im sitting him down and teaching him. wait for the wind to stop. >> and they have fun, too. as the saying goes, boys will be boys. >> i like to play playstation. >> playstation. >> frisbee. catch. ride bikes. >> we ride bikes. yeah. its fun. its fun doing it with evan. evan always makes everything funner. >> funner? is that a word? >> its more fun. >> right. >> but it was...