European Court of Human Rights Dismisses Challenge to UK's "Mother" Registration Requirement for Transgender Man Who Gives Birth
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The European Court of Human Rights has declared inadmissible an application challenging the UK's requirement that a transgender man with a Gender Recognition Certificate who gives birth must be registered as the child's "mother" on the birth certificate. The case followed UK domestic proceedings where the Court of Appeal ruled that a transgender man who carried and gave birth to a child must be recorded as "mother" despite his legal recognition as male.
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· 2 pulledThe European Court of Human Rights has declared inadmissible an application challenging the UK's requirement that a transgender man with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) who gives birth must be registered as the child's 'mother'.
The case followed domestic proceedings culminating in the Court of Appeal's decision in R (X) v Registrar General for England and Wales [2020] EWCA Civ 559, which held that a transgender man who carried and gave birth to a child is to be recorded as 'mother' on the birth certificate, notwithstanding legal recognition as male.
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