These parents say that their attempts to protect their children are actively frustrated by everyone else. It is now common for schools to accept children’s announcements of new identities without question, and even to change children’s sex in school records without informing parents. I have heard from parents who discovered that pupils were told to use one name and set of pronouns for their child – except when the parents were around, when they should switch back to birth name and pronouns – and others who were told that if they continued to ‘misgender’ their child, social services would
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