A student was removed from a Scottish school after her mother claimed the institute "radicalised" her daughter with a LGBT Youth Scotland scheme.
The mum, identified as Joanne, believes the school was effectively encouraging pupils to "come out" as trans.
Joanne said her then 12-year-old daughter - who is autistic - joined the school’s lunchtime LGBT club in East Lothian, Scotland.
The 53-year-old considered herself a member of the "wokerati" and an "LGBT ally" and was relieved her daughter, Holly was making friends.
A student was removed from a Scottish school after her mother claimed the institute "radicalised" her daughter with a LGBT Youth Scotland scheme
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However, less than a year later she was forced to change Holly's school, The Telegraph reports.
Within months of joining the LGBT club Holly, who had never shown any signs of not wanting to be a girl, announced in a Christmas card to her family that she had become their "trans son" and it with her new male name.
"We thought we were the first ones to know, but it turned out we were last," Joanne said.
"It turned out she was on to her second male name, and she had been using boys’ names at the school for months. We had been left completely in the dark.
"I even went along with the new name for a while. But as soon as I started to ask questions about what was going on at the school, I was met with a wall of secrecy."
Holly's school was signed up to a charter scheme run by the SNP Government-funded charity LGBT Youth Scotland.
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Institutions under the scheme appoint "LGBT champions" and are urged to question students about their sexual orientation and gender.
The programme is supported by the Scottish government with their guidance stating that teachers should "be affirming" if a child says they are trans.
Joanne said she requested the “charter” the school was abiding by but was sent a one-page poster with contained no information about the actual requirements.
A freedom of information request submitted by The Telegraph revealed the school was implementing a policy which states that parents should not be told if their child had transitioned without their explicit permission.
Joanne then discovered messages being shared between students in the LGBT club, which included themes such as self-harm and anime-style imagery with a sexual element.
Institutions under the scheme appoint "LGBT champions" and are urged to question students about their sexual orientation and gender
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Other messages from the teacher who was part of the “allies” group discussed the celebration of “National Coming Out Day”.
The same teacher also appeared to scold students for not making enough suggestions for the school’s "pride week".
Joanne said: "I’m still very angry about it. My child was vulnerable and I feel they exploited that. They isolated her from her family, told her to keep secrets from us and filled her head with extreme ideas.
"That is exactly what cults do and I honestly feel that this scheme is a state-funded radicalisation of children."
Since moving to a private school in Northern England, the Mum says her daughter has "no issues whatsoever with her gender".
She added: "We can’t afford it at all. In many ways, it has screwed up our lives financially and because of all the travelling. But sending her to a private school in England was the only way to get my daughter away from LGBT Youth Scotland."
East Lothian council has said its policies are in line with guidance issued by the SNP government.
GB News has approached GBT Youth Scotland for comment.
