A taxpayer-funded transgender charity which offered same-day hormone treatment for children has allegedly been banned from contacting a family after the mother forced her seven-year-old son to live as a girl.
The boy was removed from his mother’s care by the High Court last year, after Mr Justice Hayden found that she had caused him ‘significant emotional harm’.
Mermaids, a charity which offers ‘family and individual support for gender diverse and transgender children and young people’, criticised the judge’s ‘horrific’ decision at the time, claiming there was no evidence to support it.
The boy was removed from his mother’s care by the High Court last year, after Mr Justice Hayden (pictured) found that she had caused him ‘significant emotional harm’
It has now emerged that Mermaids has been ‘ordered to have nothing to do with this child following their removal’, according to the Sunday Times
However, when questioned by the newspaper, the charity, which was reportedly granted £35,000 by the Department of Education (DfE), denied it was the subject of a court order.
MailOnline has contacted Mermaids for comment.
The charity has also been accused of offering ‘same-day’ hormone therapy, contrary to NHS guidelines.
Speaking at the ruling last year, Mr Justice Hayden said: ‘This is not a case about gender dysphoria, rather it is about a mother who has developed a belief structure which she has imposed upon her child’
According to the paper, the youth section of the charity’s website featured a message from Dr Birgit Möller offering the fast-track treatment.
‘If the families are interested we would set up a long evaluation appointment at our clinic (3-4 hours) and afterwards an appointment with the endocrinologist [hormone specialist],’ she said.
‘In case of an indication for hormone treatment he would prescribe it the same day.’
However, when questioned by the paper, the message was removed from the website.
The child, known only as J, was sent to live with his father after the 2016 ruling, and has since identified as a boy.
Speaking at the ruling last year, Mr Justice Hayden said: ‘This is not a case about gender dysphoria, rather it is about a mother who has developed a belief structure which she has imposed upon her child.
‘I am bound to say that had the concerns [of school staff] been given the weight that they plainly should have, it is difficult to resist the conclusion the boy could have been spared a great deal of emotional harm.’
The boy’s 41-year-old mother had separated from her younger partner within 12 months of their son’s birth in 2009. The pair initially agreed to look after their son cooperatively.
But when the arrangement broke down in 2013 the father went to court to restore contact with his child.
By then the boy’s mother had started sending him to primary school wearing a pink headband and nail varnish. She told teachers her son was ‘gender non conforming’.
Social services received repeated warnings over the welfare of the child throughout 2013 and 2014, including a report that the mother was insisting her son was transgender.
But social workers failed to act despite concerns being raised by the school.