Transgender man, 34, loses battle to be named as father on his child’s birth certificate
by Amie Gordon, Mailonline:
A transgender man has today lost a Court of Appeal challenge over being registered as ‘mother’ on his child’s birth certificate.
Freddy McConnell, who was born a woman but transitioned into a man, gave birth to his baby boy, but wants to be registered as ‘father’ or ‘parent’.
He says forcing him to register as the ‘mother’ of the baby, identified only as YY, breaches his human right to respect for private and family life.
He took the issue to court and lost after a High Court trial before launching a legal challenge to the Court of Appeal.
Mr McConnell is a single parent who was born a woman but now lives as a man following surgery.
Freddy McConnell, a multimedia journalist who works for the Guardian, wants to be registered as ‘father’ or ‘parent’
Ten days after he legally became a man, he accessed sperm from a donor and because he had decided to keep his womb, was in the position of being a pregnant man.
Mr McConnell, a multimedia journalist who works for the Guardian, was biologically able to get pregnant in 2017, and when he gave birth in 2018, was legally a man when his child was born.
He wanted to be registered as father or parent but a registrar told him that the law required people who give birth to be registered as mothers.
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