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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Amelia Hill

‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male

Ewan Murray and his partner Grace Bingham at home in Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, with their five-week old daughter Lilah.
Ewan Murray and his partner Grace Bingham at home in Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, with their five-week old daughter Lilah. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

A newborn baby girl will have to go through life with the wrong sex on her birth certificate after a registrar’s error, which her parents have been told they cannot change.

Grace Bingham and her partner, Ewan Murray, were excited to register their first child at the Sutton-in-Ashfield Registration Office in Nottinghamshire last week. But, after nights of broken sleep, they failed to notice the registrar had written the wrong sex on the birth certificate until after it had been submitted.

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