Jennifer Huls Schools are using boys’ names for girls as young as 13 and recording them on official documents, a newspaper investigation has revealed. The Mail on Sunday found that at least three mothers were not informed that their schools had started to refer to their daughters as boys after they began to identify as male. Responding to the investigation, public law barrister Amanda Jones blasted the schools for “acting outside their powers” and warned that parental responsibility could not be overruled by “school diktat”. ‘Bullied’ One mother from the South of England was told over the phone that her 13-year-old daughter’s name had already been changed.