It’s nonsense to become a man and then seek treatment to give birth

SIR – You report (February 14) that someone born a woman was able to receive fertility treatment in order to have a baby only 10 days after legally completing transition to being a man.

Accepting that this person was born a woman, went through a transition process and was recognised by the Gender Recognition Panel as legally a man, what sort of consultation would there have been at the fertility clinic? Did the person, called TT in court, present themselves as a female or as a male when requesting a procedure which could only apply to a female?

I have a great deal of compassion for this person; however, the situation they find themselves in is of their own making, whether advised or otherwise by medical professionals.

In court, Hannah Markham QC, representing TT, said that transgender parents “should not have to explain once or even twice in a lifetime to their children why they are mum on their birth certificate but dad to them in real life. A transgender person should never be put in that position. It is not necessary and it is not proportionate. It is illogical.”

What is illogical is for a woman to be so certain she is really a man as to want to go through the gender reassignment process, only to obtain female fertility treatment in order to have a baby, as a man.

Having given birth to a child, TT’S gender is irrefutably female. Male humans cannot become pregnant and cannot give birth.

As a society, are we now unable to say No to people (for fear of being mobbed or dragged through the courts) when it so obviously needs to be said?

I wish this person and their child well, whatever the legal outcome.

Robert Bentley Poole, Dorset

SIR – The child’s development should be of paramount importance. How is it going to relate to others in society?

I’d have thought having a mother and a father constitutes a good start in life. Perhaps some consider this to be an outmoded concept. I suspect sensible people are aghast at this sort of behaviour.

Hugo Wurzer Andover, Hampshire

SIR – Is it not biology that determines maternity rather than the High Court?

Edward Cartner Alnwick, Northumberland

SIR – Is nobody going to call a halt to the supine pandering to the trans lobby? The combinations of lunacy (male rapists in women’s prisons is but one) we now have as a result of this cowardice in the face of a constant onslaught by a vocal, minuscule minority and their advocates are very worrying.

James B Sinclair St Helier, Jersey

SIR – Genealogy is going to become a very confusing discipline in a generation or two.

David Gray Wimborne, Dorset