Mater Semper (In)Certus Est: A South African Perspective on McConnell v Registrar General for England and Wales The South African Law Journal 2021 (2) Vol 138 397-422

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dc.cclicenceN/Aen
dc.contributor.authorMills, Lize
dc.date.acceptance2021-04-26
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-30T13:57:26Z
dc.date.available2023-08-30T13:57:26Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-20
dc.description.abstractIn two recent decisions by English courts, it was established that the man who gave birth to his child should be registered as the ‘mother’ of that child. The courts found that, despite the fact that the Gender Recognition Act provides that a person who had changed sex and received ‘a full gender recognition certificate’ is considered ‘for all purposes’ to be a person of ‘the acquired gender’, this person still has to be registered on his child’s birth certificate as belonging to the opposite sex. This article describes and evaluates the reasons for these decisions and compares the English position to those of a number of jurisdictions, including that of South Africa. It argues that the legal context in this country provides for a more pragmatic and equitable approach to the rights of both trans parents and their children.en
dc.description.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-jlc_salj-v138-n2-a6
dc.exception.ref2021codes252cen
dc.funderNo external funderen
dc.identifier.citationMills, L. (2021) Mater Semper (In)Certus Est: A South African Perspective on McConnell v Registrar General for England and Wales. The South African Law Journal, 138 (2), pp. 397-422en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.47348/salj/v138/i2a6
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/23165
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherJutaen
dc.researchinstituteCentre for Law, Justice and Societyen
dc.subjectBest interests of the childen
dc.subjectTrans rightsen
dc.subjectAlteration of sexen
dc.subjectDefinition of motheren
dc.titleMater Semper (In)Certus Est: A South African Perspective on McConnell v Registrar General for England and Wales The South African Law Journal 2021 (2) Vol 138 397-422en
dc.typeArticleen

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