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Baby could become first person born in England or Wales without a legal mother

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hungryhippie · 07/06/2018 17:48

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5817699/Baby-person-born-England-Wales-without-legal-mother.html

Hi, long time lurker here. Just came across this story online. If this ruling gets through I imagine it will open a whole other can of worms.
How can the law say the child has no Mother?

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OneHourTwentyFourMinutes · 07/06/2018 18:11

Venice has a video taken in Oxford, of a Transwoman crying and saying they make their child call them Mum.

user1499173618 · 07/06/2018 18:04

Poor child. That’s a very confusing scenario to grow up in.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 07/06/2018 18:01

I know it's a Daily Mail link but I've taken one for the team and read the article. The person bringing the action (I'll call them X) is biologically female, got a GRC a year or more ago and has had a double mastectomy (euphemistically called top surgery in the article but that's what I understand this means).

X, who is single, then decided to have a baby by artificial insemination. This was presumably facilitated by a fertility clinic. X now wants to be registered as the baby's father even though X went through nine months of pregnancy and then childbirth.

I'm not familiar with what gets recorded on a birth certificate when the baby's biological father is a sperm donor. I know the child has a right to know the ID of the bio father at some point, so presumably the birth certificate has to say something different, otherwise the parents could just not tell the child about the conception circumstances.

So if X is successful, the child will grow up calling X Dad and with no one to call mother. However, at some point the true position will presumably have to be explained.

This doesn't strike me as ideal for the child.

hungryhippie · 07/06/2018 17:59

I never even noticed that the Mail had given the sex of the baby! Ooops!

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OneHourTwentyFourMinutes · 07/06/2018 17:55

The judge said reports should not reveal the baby's gender or age, or the man's age, and should not give any clue where the man and the child lived.

He) seeks a declaration that being forced to register as a mother to his blank space I removed sex of baby is contrary to his right to private and family life within Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998 and that such interference, in the light of the changes which have evolved in society are no longer proportionate.'

OneHourTwentyFourMinutes · 07/06/2018 17:52

The mail slipped up and told us the sex of the baby.

The baby deserves the truth.

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