A mum has told how her gender-confused daughter was set on the pathway to social and medical ‘transition’, resulting in a breakdown in their relationship.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph under the name ‘Sarah’, the distraught mother believes her daughter — referred to as ‘Charlotte’ — was first introduced to transgender ideology through a PSHE lesson in primary school.
Sarah recounts that Charlotte was subsequently affirmed in the lie that she had been ‘born in the wrong body’ by online influencers, teachers and pro-trans medics.
Trans activism
During lockdown, Sarah explained, “Charlotte spent many hours alone, online, in her room” and encountered “an absolute breeding ground for trans activism”.
It was at that time, she said, Charlotte “fell into a rabbit hole”.
She recalls: “The first time I knew my daughter felt different was when she texted me from a bus stop one Sunday morning. ‘Hi, I think I’m transgender.’ That was it. She was still only 12.”
Secrecy
Charlotte told Sarah she had chosen a ‘gender-neutral name’, but it was not until a parent’s evening weeks later that it transpired the school had been using her daughter’s ‘preferred pronouns’ without parental permission.
“Hearing my daughter being referred to as a ‘he’ for the first time wasn’t just jarring, it was jaw-dropping. How had this happened behind my back?”
Despite Sarah raising concerns about her daughter socially transitioning in school, and “arguing that it seemed to be a path to medical transition”, the school refused to listen.
Sex-swap drugs
Charlotte’s ‘transition’ was facilitated by her father — Sarah’s ex-husband — who was “quick to affirm our child changing gender, adopting her horrible new name and male pronouns.
“Whereas I was devastated to have lost a daughter, my ex seemed perfectly happy to have gained another son.”
At just thirteen, Charlotte was already binding her chest. Two years later she began taking puberty blockers — drugs prescribed, with her dad’s permission, by the controversial Gender Plus Hormone Clinic, but only after the local GP had refused. At sixteen she started on sex-swap hormones.
Her mum concluded: “I yearn to have my child in my life again, but I just don’t think I can ever accept her as a man. I will keep fighting for these drugs to be banned in children and I won’t rest until more is done to safeguard our young people.”
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