A recent High Court ruling saw a seven-year-old boy who was living life as a girl removed from his mother's care after concerns were raised about her influence over his decisions.
In a written judgment in October, Justice Hayden said the boy, who was thought to have a gender identity condition, "dressed at all times like a girl" while living with his mother, but now lives as a boy and has "asserted his own masculine gender" since moving in with his father (see below).
Hayden criticised social workers for failing to properly investigate the mother's claims that the boy had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, and ordered that they review how they handle such cases.
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