Transgender father wins right to appeal court decision on access to children

One rabbi who was called as a witness on behalf of the mother testified “the families around them will effectively ostracise them by not allowing their children to have more than the most limited contact with that family’s children”.

The father was told she could have “indirect contact” with the children a few times a year such as writing to them on their birthday.

The judge, Mr Justice Peter Jackson, said his decision was not “a failure to uphold transgender rights…but the upholding of the rights of the children to have the least harmful outcome in a situation not of their making.”

The case will go to the Court of Appeal later this year.