The publishers of the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Sun and Daily Mirror have won the right to name a transgender man who is fighting a legal battle to be registered as “father” on his child’s birth certificate.

Guardian journalist Freddy McConnell launched a judicial review against the General Register Office after a registrar insisted he must be listed as “mother” on the certificate because he had given birth to the child.

A judge granted anonymity to McConnell and his child at the first hearing in June last year, with McConnell and his child referred to in media reports as TT and YY respectively  – the child’s name is still being withheld.