Transgender man loses court battle to be registered as father
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Ruling in Freddy McConnell case is first legal definition of a mother in English common law
A transgender man from Kent who gave birth with the help of fertility treatment cannot be registered as his child’s father, the most senior family judge in England and Wales has declared in a ruling.
In the first legal definition of a mother in English common law, Sir Andrew McFarlane, the president of the high court’s family division, ruled on Wednesday that motherhood was about being pregnant and giving birth regardless of whether the person who does so was considered a man or a woman in law. Continue reading...