Mothers and others: Transgender birth, birth registration and the rights of the child, with a focus on the United Kingdom and South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorSloth Nielsen, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorSloth Nielsen, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-23T11:50:17Z
dc.date.available2021-07-23T11:50:17Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe review concerns the position of the identification as ‘mother’ or ‘father’ of trans persons who give birth. This matter has occupied courts in the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil and Sweden recently, and could well arise in South Africa, our country of origin. The first part of the discussion relates to a claim of a trans man who gave birth to be registered as the father of the child. The legal situation in South Africa and the United Kingdom is compared, and particular focus is placed on the meaning of ‘mother’. A second issue for discussion relates to the right of the child born to a trans person to birth registration, notably, what the child’s interests are in relation to his or her parent’s identification details on his or her birth certificate. We conclude that the gender identity of the trans parent must be the primary factor determining his or her registration as a parent on the birth certificate, and that this solution also better serves the child’s best interests.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSloth-Nielsen, Julia (with Rachel Sloth-Nielsen) ‘Mothers and others: Transgender birth, birth registration and the rights of the child, with a focus on the United Kingdom and South Africa’ (2020) 20:4 International Journal of Discrimination Law pp. 203-223en_US
dc.identifier.issn1358-2291
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/6441
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Discrimination and the Lawen_US
dc.subjectTransgenderen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.subjectbirth registrationen_US
dc.subjectchildren’s rightsen_US
dc.subjectbest interestsen_US
dc.titleMothers and others: Transgender birth, birth registration and the rights of the child, with a focus on the United Kingdom and South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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