The daughter of a US married same-sex couple who was born in the UK via surrogate has been an American citizen since birth and should be given a passport, a judge has ruled.Federal judge Michael Brown in Atlanta, Georgia, where the couple and their daughter live, wrote in an order that the child doesn't need to be biologically related to both parents to be eligible for citizenship.Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg, who are both American, filed a lawsuit in July 2019 following the State Department's refusal to recognise their daughter, Simone, as a US citizen.
The girl is now two.They argued the current policy treats married same-sex couples as if their marriages don't exist, making their treatment very different from married straight couples,.