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11
Jan
2026

Blog, Louisa Ghevaert, Modern family law, Parenting law, Transgender law

Transgender Parenting & Children Law: FZ v MZ & FZ v Y Council [2025]

The recent transgender parenting case of FZ v MZ & FZ v Y Council [2025] EWHC 3338 (Fam), in which Louisa Ghevaert Associates acted for the Applicant, highlights the complex legal issues and difficulties that can be encountered by transgender individuals building families and obtaining parental status, birth registration, parental responsibility, care and upbringing of children under English law. The complicated legal landscape can produce challenging outcomes for transgender individuals, that do not reflect their acquired gender nor their child and family's lived reality. In some cases, as this case further demonstrates, it can leave transgender individuals without automatic legal status and rights for their child altogether under English law and no automatic right to be registered as a parent on their child's British birth certificate.

18
Dec
2025

Blog, Declaration of Parentage, Donor conception law, Parenting law, Transgender law

FZ v MZ & FZ v Y Council [2025] EWHC 3338 (Fam): Transgender Legal Parentage & Birth Registration Dispute

The case of FZ v MZ & FZ v Y Council [2025] EWHC 3338 (Fam) brings into focus legal difficulties encountered by a transgender man with a Gender Recognition Certificate in obtaining legal parenthood and birth registration for two children in England and Wales. It tested the law for the first time on whether he could be lawfully registered as father on his second child’s birth certificate following his wife’s privately arranged artificial conception with donor sperm outside of a licensed UK fertility clinic. It also necessitated a claim for Judicial Review to quash his incorrect registration on his first child’s birth certificate, there being no statutory power to enable the Registrar General to register afresh without leaving the initial registration manually struck through on the register of births and deaths. Louisa Ghevaert Associates acted for the Applicant (Claimant) in this case.

09
Sep
2025

Blog, Transgender law

‘So Little Consensus and So Little Trust’; Gender Dysphoria, Cross-Sex Hormones and Finding the Balance Between A Child’s Wishes and Best Interests

O v P and Q [2024] EWCA Civ 1577 is a case centred around Q, a transgender young person, and the realities and struggle faced by his parents trying to do what is best for him. It highlights the real-world worries of parents with transgender children, of trying to make them happy, safe and seen, and at the same time seeking to protect their wellbeing and safety and ensure that they don’t make a decision they will come to regret. It also touches on the wider, political and ideological debate about transgenderism, featuring the conflict among those in a policy-making position, and the lack of medical evidence and consensus regarding the treatment of trans-youth in the UK.

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