I came across this 2002 SFGate.com article after I published my last post. Here’s a quote (emphasis mine) from Daisy Bernal, one of Gwen’s friends, which I’m sure is similar to many others out there that Lifetime may have based the title of their movie on:

“People just didn’t like him,” she said. “She gets mad when I used to call her Eddie. She would be like, ‘Shut Up. Don’t call me that.’ After I called her that, she just said, ‘I’m a girl, I’m just a girl trapped in a guy’s body. God made me like that.”‘