A transgender man who gave birth to a child has lost his latest legal bid to be registered on the birth certificate as the father rather than the mother.
Freddy McConnell appealed against a decision made by a High Court judge that a person who carries and gives birth to a baby is legally a mother.
Mr McConnell, from Kent, wanted to be named father or parent on the document.
Three Appeal Court judges sitting in London rejected his case.
Sir Andrew McFarlane, the president of the Family Division of the High Court and most senior family court judge in England and Wales, concluded that people who had given birth were legally mothers, regardless of their gender, and said there was a “material difference between a person’s gender and their status as a parent”.
Judges have heard how McConnell is a single parent who was assigned female at birth but has had surgery and lives as a man.
McConnell was biologically able to get pregnant and give birth but legally became a man when the child was born.
He wanted to be registered as “father” or “parent”, but 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.
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