Trans man loses UK legal battle to register as his child's father

Freddy McConnell says he will apply to the European court of human rights to hear the case

A transgender man has lost his legal battle to be registered as his child's father or parent in the UK after the supreme court refused to consider his final appeal.

Freddy McConnell, a 34-year-old freelance journalist who works for the Guardian, gave birth in 2018 after suspending his hormone treatment. He had hoped to challenge an appeal court ruling this spring that motherhood is defined as being pregnant and giving birth regardless of whether the person who does so was considered a man or a woman in law.