Court action for tragic teen who longed to be mother

A MUM has launched a bid to stop her dead transgender child’s frozen sperm being destroyed.

Louise Anderson, 45, plans to go to the highest court in Scotland after learning that samples saved by her daughter Ellie, 16, who died suddenly last month, could be destroyed in days.

Ellie, of Stirling, who was born a boy, identified as a girl from the age of three, and planned to have gender reassignment surgery at 18.

The teenager, who identified as a straight female, delayed taking hormone blockers to allow her sperm to be collected and retained and had

BY TIM BUGLER reporters@dailyrecord.co.uk always planned to eventually have a baby. Now, Louise wants to honour Ellie’s wishes posthumously, using an egg donor and a surrogate to produce a grandchild using Ellie’s sperm.

Under present UK human fertilization rules, if Ellie had been in a relationship and had a partner at the time of her death, that person would have had the right to ask for her sperm to be retained.

But without a test case ruling, or “declarator”, from the Court of Session, that right can’t be transferred to her mum. Louise said: “Ellie’s biggest desire was to be a mother.

“She had made me promise that if anything were to happen to her, her children would be brought into the world. I am going to do every I can to honour her wishes - not just for her but for anyone else caught in this position.”

Judges would initially be asked for an interim interdict preventing the Glasgow Royal Infirmary Fertility Clinic destroying Ellie’s sample.

They’d then be asked to use a special power - the nobile officium - to find a legal solution to the matter.