A crossdresser is a person who likes to wear the clothes of the "opposite" sex. Transgender is the state of one's gender identity or gender expression not matching one's assigned sex. Being transgender is independent of sexual orientation.
Transsexual refers to a person who does not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth and wishes, whether successful or not, to realign their gender and their sex through use of medical intervention. Your son is transgender for sure, and he may well be transsexual. You need to be very careful, you are walking on thin ice!
Do you want him to commit suicide because of the way you are treating him? I'm sure his death would weigh heavy on your mind as it should. It would be YOUR fault.
I believe you already know you are wrong... if you thought you were right in the way you are treating him you wouldn't have asked this question.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.