I found out my daughter had changed gender at school when teachers called her ‘he’ at parents’ evening: Furious mother says teachers pretend being trans is ‘all glitter and unicorns’ without worrying about long-term medical impact

A mother found out her teenage daughter had decided she was actually a man when her teachers called her ‘he’ at parents’ evening, it has been alleged.

The West Country school started using male pronouns to refer to the 13-year-old girl without telling her shocked mother.

That is despite her mother believing that affirming her daughter’s choice was a slippery slope to sex change hormones and often irreversible surgery.

The mother accused the school of ‘trying to collect brownie points for diversity and inclusion’ by pretending to be trans was all about ‘glitter and unicorns’ but disregarding the long-term medical impact.

She was even asked if her daughter could stay in a boy’s dormitory while on a school trip. 

She told The Telegraph: ‘I asked if they could not see that there is a potential for underage sex, non-consensual sex, teenage pregnancies.

‘I asked them what kind of safeguarding risk assessment that they had done, and no answer was forthcoming.’

She added: ‘If my child was of African heritage and you found out they were having their breasts bound, would you do anything?

‘Because she is a white, middle-class child, because she identifies as a boy, it is somehow OK.’

It came as it was also claimed primary school teachers are being told to allow children to change gender behind their parents’ backs.

A survey of equality and trans policies at more than 600 schools in Devon and Cornwall showed a large majority (73 and 62 per cent respectively) reportedly misrepresented equality laws.

Some of the school policies reportedly claimed children ‘as young as five’ could show signs of gender dysphoria.

They also said biological sex ‘is assigned at birth, depending on the appearance of the infant’.

One grammar school reportedly stated sex was ‘a person’s understanding and experience of their own gender identity’. 

The Cass review of gender identity services for children is due to be published next week. 

Dr Hilary Cass’s interim report, published in 2022, said that ‘social transition’ – where children may change their pronouns or name – was ‘not a neutral act’.