The problem of discrepancies in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court regarding the transcription of a foreign birth certificates of a children of same-sex couples in the light of the Constitution of the Republic od Poland of 2nd April 1997

In recent years, refusal to transcribe birth certificates of children of same-sex couples has increasingly become the subject of decisions of the Supreme Administrative Court and the Supreme Court. This extremely current and at the same time complicated legal problem has been subjected in this study to a multifaceted study. The interpretation of the provisions regulating the issue of birth certificates allowed to define their place in the process of creating the child`s identity. On the other hand, the analysis of the case law made in the second part of the article made it possible to indicate specific consequences of the refusal to transfer foreign birth certificate to the national register of marital status. The most important and at the same time the most extensive part of the considerations is, however, the reference of the legal effects of the adopted solutions to the basic constitutional and international principles and values. Such a broad approach to the problem provided the basis for formulating final conclusions as to the rightness of the actions taken by the Polish state to protect the domestic legal order.