FA-2025-000058 - [2025] EWHC 2685 (Fam)

8/8/2024”

Several points require to be identified in the above Directions. I note that the significance of the wish to conceive is identified, by the Panel, as potentially relevant not to whether the Applicant is currently living in “the acquired gender” (Section 2(1)(b) GRA 2004) but as to whether he “intends to continue to live in the acquired gender until death”. It is the prospective criteria that they have in focus. The Panel afforded the Applicant the opportunity of attending to give evidence, on a secure online platform but did not order it, leaving open the opportunity for further evidence to be received by letter or email.

The Applicant responded immediately:

“If possible I'd like to book an in person appointment to explain more about my desire to have children as well as the fact I have been living as male for the past 8.5 years. Could I also bring my birth certificate to this appointment or does that have to be submitted separately? I am available at any time and on short notice too.”