A 13-year-old student has become the only boy at an all-girls school after changing his gender.

Jordan Morgan decided he was not comfortable with living as female last year and returned to Gloucester High School for Girls with his new identity in January.

Staff and pupils are now calling him by his new name and using the pronoun ‘he’ rather than ‘she’.

Transgender teen: Jordan (pictured with his mother Diane) was born a girl but returned to school in January with a new identity

But Jordan, formerly called Elizabeth, still has to wear a skirt for lessons to conform with strict uniform rules. He is fighting to be allowed to wear trousers.

He said: 'I'm transgender - I identify more as male. I feel quite strongly that being a boy is the right thing for me.

"It kind of clicked for me and I finally feel a lot more comfortable. I'm not the first transgender person who will be going to schools and I won't be the last. My friends have been accepting and many of them are LGBT.’

Jordan's family, from Kingsholm, Gloucester, did not suspect he was any different from his friends until early last year when he confessed he might be a lesbian.

Then, in October, he told his mother Diane that he was transgender and wanted to become a boy.

The uniform policy at High School for Girls in Gloucester (pictured) specifies that Year 7 to 11 pupils must wear skirts so, for the moment, Jordan is conforming with the code. But he is hoping governors grant an exception

Jordan, who lives in Kingsholm, Gloucester, said his friends and family are getting used to using 'him' and 'he' instead of 'she'. His mother Diane (left) said the school had 'tried to be accommodating' to Jordan's decision

The 45-year-old NHS worker, admitted that she initially grieved for the daughter she had lost – but said she was extremely proud of her boy.

‘Shock and grief were the first reactions,’ she said. ‘I had always thought that I'd be parenting a girl, going through the highs and lows of puberty and adolescence with a female, growing a woman.

'Finding out this was not the case was bewildering. For 13 years I had lived with my thoughts and expectations and, in the course of one conversation, all that changed.

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Regular reviews to monitor gender identity development

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'So, I took some time, wept, stormed, railed at the universe and, at times, blamed myself for things I had and hadn't done that may have made this situation come about.

'Now, slowly, with patience, acceptance is starting to make its way in.

'My child remains funny, kind, wise, compassionate, cheeky, loving, brave, creative - all qualities that are still there, whether he chooses to live as male or female.

Jordan confessed he had felt different to other girls for many years but found it easier to fit in at primary school where he wore trousers every day and played football with the boys.

He is hopeful that Gloucester High School for Girls will allow him to wear trousers.

‘I’m trying to make things happen because it makes things easier for others in this situation,’ he said.

‘It’s something that will benefit me in my life and hopefully will benefit others coming after me.’

Gloucester High School for Girls is a selective school with a mixed sixth form which has around 800 students. Last year 98 per cent of girls got five top grades at GCSE level.

Headteacher Eva Sawicka said her staff were looking closely at transgender guidance for schools and are working with the family.

Jordan visited his GP late last year and is awaiting an appointment at London's Tavistock Clinic - a service for young people with gender identity issues.

The family may eventually consider hormone therapy treatment and surgery.

A child is unable to undergo transgender surgery or permanent hormonal therapy until they reach the age of 18.

Prior to that there are a range of options, including psychotherapy or being treated with gonadotrophin-releasing hormones (GnRH) if they have reached puberty.

These are man-made hormones that suppress puberty and delay the physical changes that see a child's body become even more like that of their biological sex.