...and school asks parents to buy book on ‘agender dominatrix’ for its library

A FATHER has described his shock at receiving a ‘Christmas’ request to buy a transgender book telling the story of an ‘agender dominatrix’ called ‘Daddy’ for his daughter’s school library.

The parent was sent an email last month by his child’s secondary school in Dorset, asking parents to order from a wishlist of books it had drawn up.

The father said the majority of the books had ‘seemed fine’ but he was alarmed by one called Gender Euphoria, not least given his own daughter’s mental health issues after she recently declared herself transgender.

A synopsis of Gender Euphoria on Waterstones’ website describes it as an anthology of 19 ‘trans, non-binary, agender, gender fluid and intersex writers’.

Those writers include an agender dominatrix called ‘Daddy’, and an Arab trans man getting his first tattoo. Agender is defined as a person who does not identify as having a particular gender.

‘You certainly don’t expect to get requests like this at Christmas,’ said the father, who asked to remain anonymous. ‘And kids at 11 or 12 don’t need this type of ideology drummed into them.’

A spokeswoman for the Bayswater Support Group, which helps the parents of children with gender issues, said: ‘We would regard these books as unsuitable for a school library, accessible by 11-year-olds, due to the nature of their adult sexual content.’

A Dorset Council spokeswoman said: ‘We haven’t seen an email from the school, but do understand they are trying to expand their reading resources.’

A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: ‘It is important that schools use material that is age-appropriate. We also expect them to work closely with parents.’