Times Online
A transsexual whose 17-year marriage was nullified when his wife discovered her husband was a woman is not the legal parent of their 14-year-old daughter, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Three judges this morning said the female-to-male transsexual, referred to in court as Mr J, was still a woman at the time of their marriage in 1977 and therefore has no parental rights.
The judges said the law required that when a woman conceived and gave birth through artificial insemination by donor, as happened in this case, the other party to the marriage must be a man in order to qualify as a parent.
As Mr J was still a woman when his wife, referred to as Mrs C, conceived in 1991 he could not be “a party” to the conception.