A transgender teenager who used human rights law to cut his parents out of his life has won thousands of pounds in compensation after a council official let slip his new identity.

The teenager, who was born female but now identifies as male, is to be paid nearly £5,000 in damages as a result of the official accidentally revealing his new first name and transgender status to friends of his parents.

The 17-year-old from Leicestershire, known only as PD, had become so estranged from his parents over his gender status that he wanted no more to do with them.

In September 2014, PD - then aged 15 - told his parents, who had adopted him as a girl at the age of six, that he wanted to change his identity to male.