Court of Appeal: Lord Burnett CJ, Singh and King LJJ, [2020] EWCA Civ 559, [2020] 2 All ER 813, 29 April 2020
The Court of Appeal rejected the claim that sex as recorded in a gender recognition certificate determines a person’s status as mother or father of a child. The claimant, who was registered as female at birth but subsequently acquired a gender recognition certificate, wished to be recorded as the father, “parent” or “gestational parent” of the child to whom he had given birth.The Registry Office insisted that the claimant be registered as the child’s “mother”, albeit under his (male) name. His application for judicial review of the refusal to grant a birth certificate in such terms failed and the Court of Appeal rejected his appeal.