“…hat the concepts of “male” and “female” were fixed at birth and could not alter even if a person had undergone gender reassignment treatment: Corbett v Corbett [1971] P 83. The House of Lords was not able to use section 3 of the 1998 Act in order to re-interpret the ordinary meaning of section 11(c): see para. 49. This was essent…”
“…The traditional rule in English law was that a person’s sex was determined once and for all at the time of birth: see Corbett v Corbett [1971] P 83. It followed therefore that people who were then called transsexuals could not marry in their new gender since, at that time, a marriage required there to be a…”