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French court recognises transgender woman as the mother of her child

A Toulouse Court of Appeal has authorised a transgender woman, to be recognised as the mother of child she conceived with her partner as a man, before her sex change. © adobe stock photos

A court of appeal in the southern French city of Toulouse has just ruled that a woman who was born male should be considered the mother of the child she conceived with her partner before her sex change.

In what is a first for France's judiciary, a court of appeal recognised the right of a male-to-female transgender person - who conceived a child with her male reproductive system - to be named as the mother on the child's birth certificate.

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