Maybe I'm horribly old-fashioned about this, but I feel that the desire to be something radically different from what you are... should be treated as mental illness. I'm not talking about a lawyer who wants to become an accountant. More like somebody trying to change their own race or gender. If you're not happy being yourself, you're not going to be happy pretending to be somebody else either. Be yourself, and deal with it.
All that said, it sounds like this Amy is deadset on her course of action. She is unlikely to read the articles or give much weight to any arguments.
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions.