Freddy McConnell wanted to be registered as the father or parent of his child.
A transgender man who does not want to be described as the “mother” of his baby on a birth certificate has lost his legal fight to be recognized as the father in a high-profile British case.
"It is now medically and legally possible for an individual, whose gender is recognized in law as male, to become pregnant and give birth to their child. "Equality shouldn't have to come at a price, but this case has taken three years, hours of work and manpower, public attention and yet the courts still failed to help this family set out its actual family structure correctly in terms of its legal status.
In the film, which portrays his fatherhood journey over three years, he says, “If all men got pregnant then pregnancy would be taken so much more seriously and talked about.Lawyers said the child would be the first person born in England and Wales not to legally have a mother if McConnell won his case.
A registrar told him that the law required people who give birth to be registered as mothers. McConnell took legal action against the General Register Office, which administers the registration of births and deaths in England and Wales, after complaining of discrimination.
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