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A transgender man who has given birth to a child has begun an appeal to be legally registered as the “father” or “parent”, rather than the “mother”.
Freddy McConnell is fighting a decision made by a High Court judge last year that a person who carries and gives birth to a baby is legally a mother.
Mr McConnell, a single parent from Kent, lives as a man following surgery, having been assigned female at birth.
Three Appeal Court judges sitting in London are considering the case.
Mr McConnell, a journalist at the Guardian, had been biologically able to get pregnant and give birth but had legally become a man when the child was born.
He accused the General Register Office, which administers the registration of births and deaths in England and Wales, of discrimination.
A registrar told him that the law required people who had given birth to be registered as mothers.
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Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-51738617