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Transgender legislation 'will tear families apart'

Started by Butterfly, July 15, 2011, 12:06:24 AM

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July 15, 2011, 12:06:24 AM
Transgender legislation 'will tear families apart'
Independent.IE
By Dearbhail McDonald Legal Editor
15 July, 2011


http://www.independent.ie/national-news/transgender-legislation-will-tear-families-apart-2822424.html


WHEN Cat McIlroy met Leslie Sherlock at University College Dublin four years ago, he told the American student he was born a woman but was now a transgendered person, unsure of whether he wanted to be a man or a woman.

Sherlock, who has been McIlroy's partner for more than three years, didn't care.

"I just see Cat as a person, not a gender," said Sherlock, who attended the launch yesterday in Dublin of the long-awaited Gender Recognition Advisory Group report.

It comes almost a year after the Government was defeated in the High Court after Dr Lydia Foy, a transgender woman who was born a man, waged a 14-year legal battle to secure recognition in her new, acquired female gender.
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