Independent: 'Judge to decide whether baby can be first in UK history to be born without a mother in landmark trans rights case
Transgender parent says being forced to register as the child’s 'mother' breaches his human right to respect for privacy and family life'
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"The most senior Family Court judge in England and Wales is set to rule on a case involving a transgender man whose baby is at the centre of a historic human rights fight.
Lawyers say the baby could become the first person born in England or Wales who will not legally have a mother.
The baby is the child of a single parent who was born a woman but now lives as a man after undergoing surgery.
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Judges have heard that the man had been biologically able to get pregnant and give birth but had legally become male by the time the child was born.
He wants to be identified as the child's “father” or “parent” on a birth certificate but a registrar has told him that the law requires people who give birth to be registered as mothers." (continues)
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