Can A Man Be Mother?

[mushroom25]

Yes, it seems -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49828705
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/TT-and-YY-APPROVED-Substantive-Judgment-McF-25.9.19.pdf

Do The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968 need updating to recognise truths that were not apparent in 1968?

[spathiphyllum]

No.

The term..

"To mother"

To give birth, to breast feed etc.. etc..

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/mother

[Mamyalynne]

I can understand Freddy's disappointment at this result,however I think we are a little way off changing the regulations yet.

[sanmac]

Can a man be a mother? How ridiculous...Nothing could be father from the truth.

[Old_Geezer]

She presumably provided the egg rather than the sperm, so would be the mother. Whether she opts to act like a mother or a father to the child is up to her.

Unsure which truth you are considering was not apparent in 1968.

[ummmm]

How does a mother and father act?

[spathiphyllum]

A mother acts in ways such as putting her nipple into the mouth of her child.

A father doesn't.

[spathiphyllum]

A mother acts in ways such as carrying the child. A father doesn't.

[Old_Geezer]

Society tends to have traditional roles, not just cultural but also instinctive, and each of the mother and father tend to give that experience of being one or the other to the child. But I'm sure that we all know this.

[cassa333]

There is no truth that was not apparent in 1968.

There are men who if their biology allows provides the sperm. There are women who if their biology allows provides the eggs.

That is a simple biological scientific fact.

Just because people mix their perceptions of biological sex and gender doesn’t change the scientific facts.

Hermaphrodites not withstanding, No man has ever given birth. There has been a case within the last few years of a woman who has augmented her body and taken drugs that appears to be a man has given birth. However it should be noted that she is still a biological woman regardless of surgery and drugs.

Therefore I fail to see the point of this post.

[webbo3]

no

[MallyJ]

Producing a child either by donation of egg or sperm does not make a person a mother...it really is how the person raises said child.....there are men who are more mothers to their children than the women who gave birth to them

[pixie374]

Lovely to see you now going with the truth, spath, instead of perceived "politeness" :-) xx

[ToraToraTora]

Perlease!