Court gave teen the right to change gender from boy to girl.

THE Family Court has permitted a teenage boy to have hormone treatment to become a girl.

''Bernadette'' was born a boy in 1992 but began showing signs of female ''behaviour, preferences and traits'' from the age of three. A judge in NSW gave Bernadette, supported by her parents, permission to have hormone treatment that would suppress the onset of puberty and - later - administer oestrogen.

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