A mum is fighting to save her transgender daughter's sperm from being destroyed after she died aged just 16. Louise Anderson says her daughter Ellie's "biggest desire" was to become a mum, but she died suddenly last month.
However, Mrs Anderson has discovered that sperm samples saved by Ellie could be destroyed within days. And now she plans to take her fight to the courts in a bid to become a grandparent and realise her daughter's dream.
Ellie was born a boy, but identified as a girl from the age of three and planned to have gender reassignment surgery at 18, according to the Daily Record.
The teenager, from Stirling in central Scotland, delayed taking hormone blockers to allow her sperm to be collected and retained, and had always