THE mum of a transgender child says he has "more maturity" than the "ignorant" parents who pulled their children out of a Church of England school after it allowed boys to wear dresses.

Nigel Rowe and his wife Sally left viewers of This Morning furious after they appeared on the show and compared transgender policy to letting kids dress as animals.

3 Mienna Jones appeared on This Morning to slam a couple who pulled their children out of a Church of England school after it allowed boys to wear dresses Credit: Rex Features

3 Nigel Rowe and his wife Sally left viewers of This Morning furious after they appeared on the show and compared transgender policy to letting kids dress as animals Credit: Rex Features

The couple, who are currently home-schooling their sons, aged eight and six, on the Isle of Wight, said allowing boys as young as eight to wear dresses to school seemed "extremely young" but insisted they were not "transphobic".

Nigel and Sally have been slammed by Mienna Jones who said that being transgender is not a choice.

Speaking on today's programme, she said: "In this day and age I couldn’t believe we still have this level of ignorance and lack of acceptance."

Mienna appeared on the programme with her six-year-old son Dexter, who was born Talia.

She revealed the moment when the then four-year-old Talia told her he wanted to become Dexter.

Mienna said: "He came running in from the garden at four and he said, 'Mummy I’ve got it, I’m Dexter'.

"And I said 'OK'. He said 'I’m Dexter, that's me, that's who I am'. I said, 'Awesome that's a lovely name, I love that name'.

"He said he wanted everyone to call him Dexter and he was a boy."

3 Mienna appeared on the programme with her six-year-old son Dexter, who was born Talia Credit: Rex Features

She also added at that moment her son was "so happy" and it felt as if a "weight had been lifted".

Though she was reluctant to speak about Nigel and Sally, Mienna told presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield that she completely disagreed with the couple's views.

She said: "I wasn’t going to discuss Sally and Nigel but Dexter has more maturity. He is fully aware who he is. This is his choice, nothing pushed from home.

"When he asks, ‘Mummy I was born wrong, when will they fix me?’. That’s not something any of us have ever said to him, that’s something he feels.

"The other thing they kept saying, I got the impression they thought being transgender was wrong. He made it feel like it’s a choice. It’s not a choice, just like being gay. Your child is your child."

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