A woman who lives as if she is a man cannot be recorded as the father on her child’s birth certificate, the Court of Appeal ruled in late April.
The judges upheld the High Court’s ruling, saying the law requires those who give birth to be listed as mothers.
After transitioning, the woman, known now as Freddy McConnell, retained her female reproductive organs, conceived via donated sperm and IVF, and gave birth in 2018. McConnell challenged the government when she was not permitted to list her relationship to the child as ‘father’ on the birth certificate.
