GETTY A High Court judge has ruled that a boy must live with his dad after mum forced him to live as girl

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In a bizarre case at the Family Division of the Hight Court, a judge ruled that the youngster must be removed from his mother’s care following a three-year legal battle prompted by complaints by the father about being denied access to his son, who had been raised from infancy “entirely as a girl”. The boy, who was constantly made to wear pink hairbands, dresses and nail varnish, was even registered as a girl with his GP by his mother who was convinced that the child thought of himself as female.

TELEGRAPH Mr Justice Hayden said the young boy had experienced "a great deal of emotional harm"

The mother, a formal mental health worker who Mr Justice Hayden described as loving but “abusive and bombastic”, claimed that her son had “expressed disdain for his penis”. Now living with his father in the north of England, the judge reported that the seven-year-old “very clearly identifies himself as a boy”, and has mostly “male-orientated” interests, including Power Rangers and superheroes. Despite this, he remains confused by his early life, with the court hearing that he wears “several pairs of knickers” and “constantly rearranges his private parts and seems uncomfortable”.

According to the Mail Online, the court heard how the local council, who cannot be named, failed the child by not responding to concerns raised over his welfare throughout 2013 and 2014, including an ignored request from a GP for a social worker to visit him over concerns of a possible gender identity disorder. The boy’s school also flagged up concerns following a confrontation in which the 40-year-old mother allegedly reduced a worried teacher to tears when they pointed out that the child didn’t “display any differences to the other boys” in the class - to which the mother insisted that he was “gender non-conforming” and “happy” to look like a girl. The council’s housing department also raised the alarm in May 2014, when they reported that the mother was claiming her son had been diagnosed as transgender at the age of four. Despite officials stating that the boy “looked dirty, had pen marks on his legs and was dressed as a girl”, no further action was taken because there were “no safeguarding concerns”.

GETTY The court heard how the boy was made to wear girl's clothes and registered as a girl with his GP

The NSPCC also received two anonymous calls regarding the child - the first of which raised concerns about the mother’s mental heath and irrational behaviour, claiming that he was dressed as a girl to make her “happy”. The second was an anonymous call from a person who was concerned that the mother has “stated twice in a week that he is transgender.” Mr Justice Hayden criticised the council for their “wholesale acceptance that he should be regarded as a girl”, when “there was no independent or supportive evidence that (the boy) identified as a girl at all, indeed there was a body of material that suggested the contrary.”

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