THE mother of a girl trapped in a boy’s body has spoken for the first time about her experience.
The 36-year-old mother, from Worcester, who wished to remain anonymous, said her daughter had suffered at the hands of bullies, both young and old who had labelled them the ‘freak family’.
She said her 10-year-old daughter had been into girl’s toys and dresses for as long as she had been able to make her own choices – and was devastated when she was made to go to school dressed in a boy’s uniform.
But on Monday the brave child made her return to school for the first time – dressed in a girl’s school uniform.
Her proud mother, said: “As soon as she could make free choice, she was just always into girl stuff. Whether it be make-up, dolls, dresses, she never had any interest in boy’s toys.
“We had to tell the family to stop buying her footballs or WWE figures at Christmas, she was just never interested in it. She wanted a new skirt or a Barbie doll.
“She has suffered bullying but is happier to be going to school as a girl. When we made her dress as a boy, she would get into a right state, it just doesn’t feel natural to her.
“She did come home with a friend once and when they told everybody at school all she has at home was girl’s toys, some of them bullied her pretty badly.
“But she accepts who she is and feels conformable with that, when she is old enough she will take hormone tablets, to stop her going through puberty and growing facial hair.
“She got called ‘gay’ and a ‘freak’ and even now we don’t just have children making comments, you hear adults coughing under their breathe at us and calling us the ‘freak family’”
Her mum said that she had known that her daughter was was different since the age of two-and-a-half.
She added the headteacher of the school had been “fantastic” and said her daughter had been “brave” to come back to school as a girl.
She said: “The school had been fantastically understanding, they held two assembly’s to make sure the children understand it is like any other medical condition.
“She told them it was just like wearing glasses, and she should not be treated any differently.
“It’s going to be a hard school life for us and for her as well, but she is a strong person and I’m sure we will get through it as a family.
“She has to use the disabled toilets at school, they won’t let her use the ladies, parents would not accept that.
“But for the first time she is in a girls school uniform and she has been a lot happier during the run up to term.”
