Social workers let a mother raise her young son as a girl because they were in thrall to ‘transgender equality’. The boy, who was made to wear a pink hairband, dresses and nail varnish, lived ‘entirely as a girl’.
He was registered as a girl with his doctor’s surgery and was referred to as ‘she’ in official documentation from the age of just four.
But despite the alarm being raised by officials and the boy’s father, council staff failed to intervene.
Details of the extraordinary case were revealed at the Family Court yesterday when a judge accused the boy’s social workers of naivety and professional arrogance.
The seven-year-old, who cannot be identified, has been removed from his mother’s care and is living with his father in the north of England.
He now regards himself as male and plays with toys such as Power Rangers. The judge, Mr Justice Hayden, said: ‘This is not a case about gender dysphoria, rather it is about a mother who has developed a belief structure which she has imposed upon her child.
‘I am bound to say that had the concerns [of school staff] been given the weight that they plainly should have, it is difficult to resist the conclusion the boy could have been spared a great deal of emotional harm.’
He added: ‘Transgender equality has received a great deal of attention in recent times. I believe that in this case the profile and sensitivity of the matters raised by the mother blinded a number of professionals from applying their training, skill, and, it has to be said, common sense.
This is so interesting. From the sounds of it the woman forced her son to live as a girl when he didn't identify as a girl, so I agree with the judges removing him from her care. However I understand why the social workers were reluctant to intervene because they had to be sure the boy did not identify as a girl and did not want to live as one.
This is odd. I feel like I need more information before making a rush to judgment. I remember a Law & Order SVU episode just like this back in the early-mid 2000s.
I can't quite comprehend some of the things the paragraphs said. I mean, the whole wearing pink and playing with dolls doesn't make you a girl. Neither does playing with Power Rangers or anything make you a boy. I mean, gender is more than that.
I am wary about the whole surgery thing if that's what I'm getting correctly from it. I mean, that's something that I don't agree with it if she did have the genitals changed. That's awful.
I can't quite comprehend some of the things the paragraphs said. I mean, the whole wearing pink and playing with dolls doesn't make you a girl. Neither does playing with Power Rangers or anything make you a boy. I mean, gender is more than that.
I am wary about the whole surgery thing if that's what I'm getting correctly from it. I mean, that's something that I don't agree with it if she did have the genitals changed. That's awful.
Pink headbands, dresses, and dolls? She was very obviously trying to make him look and behave as a girl.
I can't quite comprehend some of the things the paragraphs said. I mean, the whole wearing pink and playing with dolls doesn't make you a girl. Neither does playing with Power Rangers or anything make you a boy. I mean, gender is more than that.
I am wary about the whole surgery thing if that's what I'm getting correctly from it. I mean, that's something that I don't agree with it if she did have the genitals changed. That's awful.
You can't get sex reassignment surgery until you're 18 so that won't have happened.
Yeah. I don't see what was wrong with what she was doing. The surgery thing is a little extreme yeah, but I bet the judge wouldn't bat an eye at them if they made there son play sports or wear "boy" clothes. **** his ***** ass.
this is... weird
i don't get why they were taken away?
Probably for psychological abuse since there was no evidence at all that he identified as a girl. She was just convinced that he wanted to be a girl and tried to convince him of it too. The thread title is misleading. There's no evidence that he's transgender.
Odd case though, if he was a female transgendered and the opposite happened would he been taken away. I also know of parents enforcing toys and clothes but because it fit's their "sex" it's not considered abuse but "parenting".
