Mother warned her 14-year-old daughter could be taken into care after complaining her child was ‘encouraged’ to have sex change

Nov 25, 2018 by Jill

by Sanchez Manning, Mailonline:

A mother was warned that her daughter could be placed under the care of social workers after she complained that the 14-year-old was being ‘encouraged’ to change sex by a therapist and her teachers.

The 45-year-old, whom we’ve called Lisa to protect her identity, raised the objections after discovering that, during their first hour-long appointment, an NHS psychotherapist had told the girl she could take hormones to stop her periods and give her male characteristics.

She also found out that teachers had given her daughter – who wanted to identify as male – a boy’s name and referred to her using male pronouns at school without her parents’ knowledge.

The school in the Midlands – the name of which the MoS has agreed to withhold because the girl still attends classes there – called in social services after Lisa banned her daughter from visiting the NHS clinic where she was receiving counselling and tried to find another therapist.

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