The High Court has restricted a mother from being told about her daughter’s gender dysmorphia because of her religious views.

The young girl, who is in foster care, does not want her mother to know about her struggles with her sexuality gender identity. She has repeatedly told social workers that she was concerned about her mother’s reaction and feared she would disown her.

The girl, who cannot be identified and is referred to in court proceedings only as ‘G’, said that she had spoken with her mother about one of her friends being gay and “her mother's response was to re-state her religious views and her disapproval of such choices”.

Council social services bosses with responsibility for G’s care do not want to inform her mother, but have asked a High Court judge to consider what information they are obliged to give her.