Ireland- Column: Why is the government delaying a law to recognise transgender p

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Column: Why is the government delaying a law to recognise transgender people?

Ireland is in clear defiance of a High Court judgment that said the law on transgender people has to change, writes Michael Farrell.

Yesterday, 7:00 AM | Retrieved from the Internet on August 1, 2012 by SJ



http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-why-is-the-government-delaying-a-law-to-recognise-transgender-people-533483-Jul2012/



ON 14 JULY last year Social Protection Minister Joan Burton launched a report on legally recognising transgender persons.  The Minister said gender recognition legislation would be given high priority.  A year later the Government has not produced even the heads of a Bill on this issue.
Ireland is now in clear defiance of a High Court judgment that said the law on transgender persons was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.  And this country is now one of only a tiny handful of European states that still do not recognise transgender people.