Where an individual, who was born female, undergoes gender transition and becomes legally recognised as male before going on to conceive, carry and give birth to a child, with the result that the parent who has given birth is legally a man rather than a woman. The question posed to this court is: Is that man the ‘mother’ or the ‘father’ of his child?
The Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mcfarlane
President of the Family Division
[2019] EWHC 2384 (Fam), [2019] WLR(D) 526, [2020] 1 FLR 676, [2020] Fam 45, [2019] HRLR 17, [2020] 1 FCR 114, [2019] 3 WLR 1195
Bailii, WLRD
England and Wales
Administrative, Family
Updated: 24 January 2022; Ref: scu.648668