Reminders were sent to staff not to use her preferred name, it added. The school denied failing in its safeguarding duties and said the pupil has a right to privacy about her medical information. We believe that some of the professionals whose job it is to safeguard children may have acted in her worst interests by enabling, encouraging and facilitating life-changing medicalisation with irreversible consequences.' We have only ever sought to act in the best interests of our daughter. The pupil's father also told The Sunday Times: 'The institutions have put us in an impossible situation. We feel we are living in a Franz Kafka novel.' Social transitioning means a person being treated as a gender different to their biological sex but with no medical intervention. There were teachers who disregarded that. 'When we met the headteacher we agreed there would be no social transition at school. 'We feel our daughter's mental and physical health is being put at risk and we have been shut out from any discussion. ![]() 'This is a safeguarding issue,' said her father. The teen was also given advice on gender ID by a youth project which runs classes at schools. The parents had met the headteacher at her large secondary in south-east England and made it clear they did not agree to her being called a boy's name or pronouns (Stock Image)
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