UK transgender man mother

 

Trans man loses UK legal battle to register as his child's father  

Freddy McConnell said he will request the matter be heard by the European Court of Human Rights.

UK transgender man mother 

After the supreme court declined to hear his final appeal, a transgender man's legal fight to be recognized as his child's father or parent in the UK was unsuccessful. 

Freddy McConnell, a freelance journalist for the Guardian who is 34 years old, had a child in 2018 after discontinuing his hormone therapy. He had intended to appeal last spring's decision by the appeals court that, regardless of whether the person giving birth is legally regarded as a male or a woman, being pregnant and giving birth constitute motherhood.

The decision to pass on his case is a setback for advocates for LGBT Q+ rights. The advocacy organization Stonewall, which believed that the law would recognize all parents "for who they are," viewed the decision as crucial. 

McConnell got a double mastectomy in 2014 after starting his medical transition with testosterone treatment in 2013. He had his gender altered for his passport and NH S documents, but he still had a female reproductive system. After stopping his hormone therapy and letting his menstrual cycle begin again, he became pregnant. 

Both the high court, in September 2019, and the allure court, in April 2020, decided that despite the fact that he was viewed as a man by regulation and had an orientation acknowledgment endorsement to demonstrate it, he was unable to show up on his youngster's introduction to the world declaration as "father" or parent. McConnell had contended this penetrated the Basic liberties Act. 

In contrast to the parent's right to be recognized on the birth certificate in their legal gender, Lord Burnett sided with the right of a child born to a transgender parent to know the biological facts of its birth.