- Federal Court in Germany said woman could only be registered as child’s father
- Judges rejected the woman’s appeal against a lower court ruling about the child
- She wanted to be legally registered as the mother, but appeal was dismissed
- Woman changed sex in 2012 and her partner gave birth three years later
Germany’s top court has ruled that a transsexual woman whose frozen sperm was used to fertilize an egg can only be registered as the child’s father.
The Federal Court said Thursday it rejected the woman’s appeal against a lower court ruling preventing her from being legally listed as the child’s mother.
She changed sex in 2012 and her partner gave birth to a child three years later, having used the plaintiff’s sperm.
The woman changed sex in 2012 and her partner gave birth to a child three years later, having used the plaintiff’s sperm
The Federal Court said Thursday it rejected the woman’s appeal against a lower court ruling preventing her from being legally listed as the child’s mother (file photo)
The registry office refused to list the sperm donor as the mother.
The Federal Court said judges concluded ‘the transsexual person’s fundamental rights aren’t breached by the fact that existing ancestry law assigns her the legal status of parent according to her former sex’.
Judges also stated that this also referred to the the ‘specific contribution to procreation that resulted from this’.