Nowadays I consider myself genderfluid, and I'm pretty open about it. I tend to identify as male, since it has become most comfortable, but even just a couple years ago I still considered myself full ftm-trans. I never really got too heavy into the LGBT community, so I don't really know all of the terms going around or any of that, but I've hadpeople get mad at me for NOT having a gender i recognize as fully, on both sides of the table, and that's painful, too. I'm incredibly lucky to have found a man who accepted me even when I told him I planned to transition someday (for the record I no longer have that aspiration, but I do cross dress when I go out sometimes). My parents, on the other hand, initially rejected the notion, but then started trying to call me by my chosen name, though they've stopped that these days...
Tl;dr the discrimination just plain needs to stop, people need to be able to be comfortable with themselves. Period. This is tragically upsetting news. :(